Performance and Complexity of Circular Decoding for Tail-Biting Convolutional Codes

Wonjin SUNG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E85-B    No.5    pp.967-971
Publication Date: 2002/05/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Wireless Communications Issue)
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Keyword: 
tail-biting,  convolutional code,  circular decoding,  error bound,  wireless communication,  

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Summary: 
The circular decoding algorithm for tail-biting convolutional codes is executed using a fixed number of computations and is suitable for DSP/ASIC implementations. This letter presents the performance and complexity trade-off in the circular decoding algorithm using an analytic bound on the error probability. An incremental performance improvement is shown as the complexity increases from O(L) to O(L+10K) where L is the length of the decoding trellis and K is the constraint length. The decoding complexity required to produce the maximum-likelihood performance is presented, which is applicable to many codes of practical interest.