• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.3 s.345
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• pp.95-102
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• 2006

This paper proposes the KB-Fano algorithm which has lower decoding complexity by applying modified Fano-like metric bias to the conventional K-best algorithm. Additionally, an efficient K-best decoding algorithm, named the KR-Fano scheme, is proposed by jointly combining the K-reduction and the KB-Fano schemes. Simulations show that the proposed algerian provides the remarkable improvement from the viewpoints of the BER performance and the decoding complexity as compared to the conventional K-best scheme.