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Soft-Decision Decoding of Punctured Convolutional Codes in Asynchronous-CDMA Communications Under Perfect Phase-Tracking Conditions

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In this paper, the performance of punctured convolutional codes of short constraint lengths is discussed. The punctured codes are used to provide error protection to a particular user in an asynchronous CDMA system. A perfect phase reference is assumed to be available throughout this paper. A slow fading Rician channel is assumed. Maximum likelihood decoding through a Viterbi algorithm is used to decode the information symbols. Soft-decision decoding of punctured convolutional codes is considered in this paper. The upper bounds with Viterbi decoding are derived and plotted for the various punctured codes considered. The simulated results are found to agree very well with their upper and lower bounds.

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  1. Département Génie des Systémes d’Information et de Télécommunication, Université de Technologie de Troyes, 12 Rue Marie Curie, 10010, Troyes Cedex, France

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Bhaskar, V. Soft-Decision Decoding of Punctured Convolutional Codes in Asynchronous-CDMA Communications Under Perfect Phase-Tracking Conditions. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 13, 229–237 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-006-0025-2

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