Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels

A new distance metric for soft-decision decoding in impulsive noise is proposed. Results reveal that soft-decoders employing Euclidean distance as a decoding metric suffer two limitations: an increase in constraint-length leads to degraded performances; secondly, their performance is poorer than har...

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Main Author: Chuah, T.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2553/
http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2553/1/1816.pdf