• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.453-460
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• 2006

In this article, we introduce a new class of product codes based on convolutional codes, called convolutional product codes. The structure of product codes enables parallel decoding, which can significantly increase decoder speed in practice. The use of convolutional codes in a product code setting makes it possible to use the vast knowledge base for convolutional codes as well as their flexibility in fast parallel decoders. Just as in turbo codes, interleaving turns out to be critical for the performance of convolutional product codes. The practical decoding advantages over serially-concatenated convolutional codes are emphasized.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2014

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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2015

Convolutional codes which are terminated by direct truncation (DT) and zero tail termination provide unequal error protection. When DT terminated convolutional codes are used to encode short messages, they have interesting error protection properties. Such codes match the significance of the output bits of common quantizers and therefore lead to a low mean square error (MSE) when they are used to encode quantizer outputs which are transmitted via a noisy digital communication system. A code construction method that allows adapting the code to the channel is introduced, which is based on time-varying convolutional codes. We can show by simulations that DT terminated convolutional codes lead to a lower MSE than standard block codes for all channel conditions. Furthermore, we develop an MSE approximation which is based on an upper bound on the error probability per information bit. By means of this MSE approximation, we compare the convolutional codes to linear unequal error protection code construction methods from the literature for code dimensions which are relevant in analog to digital conversion systems. In numerous situations, the DT terminated convolutional codes have the lowest MSE among all codes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제26권8A호
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• pp.1437-1440
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• 2001

We present a modification method for runlength limited codes based on convolutional codes. This method is based on cosets of convolutional codes and can be applied to any convolutional code without degradation of error control performance of the codes. The upper bound of maximum zero and/or one runlength are provided. Some convolutional codes which have the shortest maximum runlength for given coding parameters are tabulated.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.270-279
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• 2014

The Viterbi decoding algorithm, which provides maximum - likelihood decoding, is currently considered the most widely used technique for the decoding of codes having a state description, including the class of linear error-correcting convolutional codes. Two classes of nonbinary convolutional codes are presented. Distance preserving mapping convolutional codes and M-ary convolutional codes are designed, respectively, from the distance-preserving mappings technique and the implementation of the conventional convolutional codes in Galois fields of order higher than two. We also investigated the performance of these codes when combined with a multiple frequency-shift keying (M-FSK) modulation scheme to correct narrowband interference (NBI) in power-line communications channel. Themodification of certain detectors of the M-FSK demodulator to refine the selection and the detection at the decoder is also presented. M-FSK detectors used in our simulations are discussed, and their chosen values are justified. Interesting and promising obtained results have shown a very strong link between the designed codes and the selected detector for M-FSK modulation. An important improvement in gain for certain values of the modified detectors was also observed. The paper also shows that the newly designed codes outperform the conventional convolutional codes in a NBI environment.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권5C호
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• pp.611-617
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• 2004

The optimum convolutional error correction codes for recently standardized Feher-patented quadrature phase-shift keying (FQPSK-B) modulation are proposed. We utilize the continuous phase modulation characteristics of FQPSK-B signals for calculating the minimum Euclidean distance of convolutional coded FQPSK-B signal. It is shown that the Euclidean distance between two FQPSK-B signals is proportional to the Hamming distance between two binary data sequence. Utilizing this characteristic, we show that the convolutional codes with optimum free Hamming distance is the optimum convolutional codes for FQPSK-B signals.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제30A권8호
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• pp.19-26
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• 1993

The bit error probability of Reed-Solomon/convolutional concatenated codes can be more exactly calculated by using a more approximate bound of the symbol error probability of the convolutional codes. This paper obtains the unequal symbol error bound of the convolutional codes, and applies to the calculation of the bit error probability of the concatenated codes. Our results are tighter than the earlier studied other bounds.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제32A권5호
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• pp.24-30
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• 1995

A new class of DC-error correcting codes based on convolutional codes is proposed with its performance analysis. The proposed codes can be encoded and decoded using the conventional convolutional encoders and decoders with slight modifications. And the codes have null point at DC and capable of correcting errors. The DC-free error correcting codes are especially well suited for applications in high-speed channels.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권2C호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2008

본 논문에서 터보 부호의 성능을 최대화 시킬 수 있도록 구성 부호의 거리 분포 특성에 근거하여 구성 순환 조직형 컨벌루션(RSC: recursive systematic convolutional) 부호를 설계하는 방법을 제안한다. 부호율이 1/2인 RSC 부호에 대하여 컴퓨터로 검색하고 그 결과는 표로 정리하여 제시한다. 찾은 부호들의 성능은 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 검증한다. 제안된 방법으로 설계한 부호들은 반복 복호에 따른 빠른 수렴 정도를 보여주면서 좋은 성능을 가진다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권7A호
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• pp.512-521
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 곱부호를 위한 연판정 데이터의 결합을 이용한 복호 기법을 유한 비트 연판정만을 적용하여 사용할 수 있도록 새로운 연판정 데이터의 결합 법칙을 제시한다. 기존의 무한 연판정을 이용한 복호 기법은 복잡한 tanh 연산에 기반을 두고 있으므로 높은 연산 복잡도와 함께 하드웨어에 적용하기 어려운 단점이 있다. 따라서 기존 복호 기법에서 이용되는 연산들을 분석하여 작성한 간단한 연산 테이블을 이용하여 복호하는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 연판정 데이터를 적용하기 용이한 길쌈부호를 곱부호의 수평부호로 이용하였을 때 연판정 데이터의 결합 방식을 찾는 방법을 제시하고 모의 실험을 통해 성능을 검증한다. 제안된 알고리듬은 4비트 유한 연판정을 적용한 길쌈부호를 곱부호의 수평부호로 이용하였을 때 무한 연판정을 적용한 경우의 성능에 근접함을 보였다.