Fundamentals of Convolutional Coding, Second Edition, regarded as a bible of
convolutional coding brings you a clear and comprehensive discussion of the basic …

The application of digital methods to satellite communications requires the utilization of
modulation, multiple-access, and coding techniques. This book brings together theories …

A fast algorithm for searching a tree (FAST) is presented for computing the distance
spectrum of convolutional codes. The distance profile of a code is used to limit substantially …

Introduction to Convolutional Codes with Applications is an introduction to the basic
concepts of convolutional codes, their structure and classification, various error correction …

Fixed binary convolutional codes are considered which are simultaneously optimal or near-
optimal according to three criteria: namely, distance profile d, free distance d_ ∞, and …

Although sequential decoding of convolutional codes gives a very small decoding error
probability, the overall reliability is limited by the probability PG of deficient decoding, the …

This article surveys many variants of sequential decoding in literature. Rather than
introducing them chronologically, this article first presents the Algorithm A, a general …

Unit memory convolutional codes with generator matrices, which are composed of circulant
submatrices, are introduced. This structure facilitates the analysis of efficient search for good …

A tabulation of binary systematic convolutional codes with an optimum distance profile for
rates 1/3 and 1/4 is given. A number of short rate 1/3 binary nonsystematic convolutional …

A new analysis of the computational effort and the error probability of sequential decoding is
presented, which is based entirely on the distance properties of a particular convolutional …