focused on the short-blocklength performance of coded communication systems with
feedback and is organized in three main parts. The first section presents a novel reliability-
output decoding algorithm for tail-biting convolutional codes, based on Raghavan and
Baum's Reliability-Output Viterbi Algorithm (ROVA) for terminated convolutional codes.
Whereas terminated convolutional codes suffer from a rate penalty at short blocklengths, tail …