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Optimal decoding of linear codes for minimizing symbol error rate (Corresp.)

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The general problem of estimating the a posteriori probabilities of the states and transitions of a Markov source observed through a discrete memoryless channel is considered and an optimal decoding algorithm is derived.
Abstract
The general problem of estimating the a posteriori probabilities of the states and transitions of a Markov source observed through a discrete memoryless channel is considered. The decoding of linear block and convolutional codes to minimize symbol error probability is shown to be a special case of this problem. An optimal decoding algorithm is derived.

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Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

TL;DR: A generic message-passing algorithm, the sum-product algorithm, that operates in a factor graph, that computes-either exactly or approximately-various marginal functions derived from the global function.
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The viterbi algorithm

TL;DR: This paper gives a tutorial exposition of the Viterbi algorithm and of how it is implemented and analyzed, and increasing use of the algorithm in a widening variety of areas is foreseen.
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Near Shannon limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo-codes. 1

TL;DR: In this article, a new class of convolutional codes called turbo-codes, whose performances in terms of bit error rate (BER) are close to the Shannon limit, is discussed.
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Good error-correcting codes based on very sparse matrices

TL;DR: It is proved that sequences of codes exist which, when optimally decoded, achieve information rates up to the Shannon limit, and experimental results for binary-symmetric channels and Gaussian channels demonstrate that practical performance substantially better than that of standard convolutional and concatenated codes can be achieved.
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Near optimum error correcting coding and decoding: turbo-codes

TL;DR: A new family of convolutional codes, nicknamed turbo-codes, built from a particular concatenation of two recursive systematic codes, linked together by nonuniform interleaving appears to be close to the theoretical limit predicted by Shannon.
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Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm

TL;DR: The upper bound is obtained for a specific probabilistic nonsequential decoding algorithm which is shown to be asymptotically optimum for rates above R_{0} and whose performance bears certain similarities to that of sequential decoding algorithms.
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The viterbi algorithm

TL;DR: This paper gives a tutorial exposition of the Viterbi algorithm and of how it is implemented and analyzed, and increasing use of the algorithm in a widening variety of areas is foreseen.
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On receiver structures for channels having memory

TL;DR: Receiver structures are developed for making jointly optimum decisions about L consecutive symbols on the basis of the complete message received and the decision statistics are computed by a sequential procedure, and the number of computations increases only linearly with the message length.
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Bootstrap hybrid decoding for symmetrical binary input channels

TL;DR: A new method of decoding is presented that utilizes algebraic constraints across streams of convolutionally encoded information sequences to improve the performance of ordinary sequential decoding and over the older hybrid scheme developed by Falconer.