Soft Trellis-Based Decoder for Linear Block Codes

Yuval Berger, Yair Be'ery

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Abstract

A systematic design of a trellis-based maximum- likelihood soft-decision decoder for linear block codes is presented. The essence of the decoder is to apply an efficient search algorithm for the error pattern on a reduced trellis representation of a certain coset. Rather than other efficient decoding algorithms, the proposed decoder is systematically designed for long codes, as well as for short codes. Computational gain of up to 6 is achieved for long high-rate codes over the well-known trellis decoder of Wolf. Efficient decoders are also obtained for short and moderate length codes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)764-773
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume40
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1994

Keywords

  • Trellis
  • block codes
  • maximum-likelihood decoding
  • soft-decision decoding

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