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An Improved Method of Reliability-Based Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithms Using an Order Relation among Binary Vectors
Hideki YAGI Manabu KOBAYASHI Toshiyasu MATSUSHIMA Shigeichi HIRASAWA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Vol.E87-A
No.10
pp.2493-2502 Publication Date: 2004/10/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications) Category: Coding Theory Keyword: maximum likelihood decoding, soft decision decoding, reliability measure, linear block codes, order relation,
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Summary:
Reliability-based maximum likelihood decoding (MLD) algorithms of linear block codes have been widely studied. These algorithms efficiently search the most likely codeword using the generator matrix whose most reliable and linearly independent k (dimension of the code) columns form the identity matrix. In this paper, conditions for omitting unnecessary metrics computation of candidate codewords are derived in reliability-based MLD algorithms. The proposed conditions utilize an order relation of binary vectors. A simple method for testing if the proposed conditions are satisfied is devised. The method for testing proposed conditions requires no real number operations and, consequently, the MLD algorithm employing this method reduces the number of real number operations, compared to known reliability-based MLD algorithms.
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