A new upper bound on the first-event error probability for maximum-likelihood decoding of fixed binary convolutional codes

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An upper bound on the first-event error probability for maximum-likelihood decoding of fixed binary convolutional codes on the binary symmetric channel is derived. The bound is evaluated for rate1/2codes, and comparisons are made with simulations and with the bounds of Viterbi, Van de Meeberg, and Post. In particular, the new bound is significantly better than Van de Meeberg's bound for rates above

• Author: Mats Cedervall; Rolf Johannesson; Kamil Zigangirov
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology
• Publishing year: 1984
• Language: English
• Pages: 762-766
• Publication/Series: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 5
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• Links: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/18/22744/01056961.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=1056961
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0018-9448