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.
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Language:English
Published: 2003
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description 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 hard-decoders. Both limitations are ameliorated by the proposed distance metric.
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spelling mmu-25532014-02-06T02:47:13Z http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2553/ Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels Chuah, T.C. TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) 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 hard-decoders. Both limitations are ameliorated by the proposed distance metric. 2003-07 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2553/1/1816.pdf Chuah, T.C. (2003) Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels. Electronics Letters, 39 (14). pp. 1062-1063. ISSN 00135194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el:20030690 doi:10.1049/el:20030690 doi:10.1049/el:20030690
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Chuah, T.C.
Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title_full Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title_fullStr Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title_full_unstemmed Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title_short Distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-Gaussian channels
title_sort distance metric for soft-decision decoding in non-gaussian channels
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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