Convolutional block codes, which are commonly used as constituent codes in turbo code configurations, accept a block of information bits as input rather than a continuous stream of bits. In this paper ...

Reduced-state sequence detection (RSSD) reduces the state trellis of a channel code by forming the states into classes. States within a class are such that paths into the states lie further than a ...

In parallel, research into periodic state-space representations has offered fresh insights into the design of convolutional codes, facilitating improved methods for intermittent decoding and ...