Decoding Complexity Study II.

Abstract

This report presents the most recent results of an investigation into the complexity of decoding error-correcting codes and the development of efficient and practical decoding techniques. The most important result has been the discovery of a new general mathematical framework in which digital decoding and analog demodulation become special cases of a more general class of decoding-demodulation functions. Although we have only just begun to explore the many possibilities opened up by this discovery, results of practical importance have already been produced, including an optimum soft-decision symbol-by-symbol decoding algorithm for linear codes whose complexity varies inversely with code rate. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA039023

Entities

People

  • Luther D. Rudolph

Organizations

  • Syracuse University

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Complex Numbers
  • Computer Programming
  • Decoding
  • Demodulation
  • Demodulators
  • Digital Communications
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Gaussian Channels
  • Information Theory
  • Modulation
  • Numbers
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Signal Processing

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  • Theoretical Analysis.