The Construction and Viterbi Decoding of New (2k, k, l) Convolutional Codes


Wanquan Peng, Chengchang Zhang, Journal of Information Processing Systems Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 69-80, Mar. 2014  

10.3745/JIPS.2014.10.1.069
Keywords: Convolutional Codes, Block Codes, Double Loop Cyclic Codes, Matrix Decoding, Viterbi Algorithm
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Abstract

The free distance of (n, k, l) convolutional codes has some connection with the memory length, which depends on not only l but also on k. To efficiently obtain a large memory length, we have constructed a new class of (2k, k, l) convolutional codes by (2k, k) block codes and (2, 1, l) convolutional codes, and its encoder and generation function are also given in this paper. With the help of some matrix modules, we designed a single structure Viterbi decoder with a parallel capability, obtained a unified and efficient decoding model for (2k, k, l) convolutional codes, and then give a description of the decoding process in detail. By observing the survivor path memory in a matrix viewer, and testing the role of the max module, we implemented a simulation with (2k, k, l) convolutional codes. The results show that many of them are better than conventional (2, 1, l) convolutional codes.


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[APA Style]
Peng, W. & Zhang, C. (2014). The Construction and Viterbi Decoding of New (2k, k, l) Convolutional Codes. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 10(1), 69-80. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.2014.10.1.069.

[IEEE Style]
W. Peng and C. Zhang, "The Construction and Viterbi Decoding of New (2k, k, l) Convolutional Codes," Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 69-80, 2014. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.2014.10.1.069.

[ACM Style]
Wanquan Peng and Chengchang Zhang. 2014. The Construction and Viterbi Decoding of New (2k, k, l) Convolutional Codes. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 10, 1, (2014), 69-80. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.2014.10.1.069.