Convolutional codes II. Maximum-likelihood decoding

Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm

Andrew J. Viterbi · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1967 · 6.8K citations

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The viterbi algorithm

G. David Forney · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1973 · 5.7K citations

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Convolutional Codes and Their Performance in Communication Systems

Andrew J. Viterbi · IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology · 1971 · 1K citations

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Convolutional codes I: Algebraic structure

G. David Forney · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1970 · 772 citations

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A simple derivation of the coding theorem and some applications

Robert G. Gallager · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1965 · 705 citations

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