On the distribution of the output error burst lengths for Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes

Summary, in English

The distribution of the output error burst lengths from a Viterbi decoder is of particular interest in connection with concatenated coding systems, where the inner code is convolutional. From the expurgated, random, and sphere-packing exponents for block codes an upper bound on this distribution for the ensemble of periodically time-varying convolutional codes is obtained. Finally, the distribution obtained from simulating time-invariant convolutional codes is presented

• Author: Stefan Höst; Rolf Johannesson; Dimitrij K. Zigangirov; Kamil Zigangirov; Viktor V. Zyablov
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology
• Publishing year: 1997
• Language: English
• Pages: 108-108
• Publication/Series: [Host publication title missing]
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• Links: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4845/13396/00613023.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.1997.613023
• Document type: Conference paper
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Conference name: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 1997
• Conference date: 1997-06-29 - 1997-07-04
• Conference place: Ulm, Germany
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 0-7803-3956-8