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Tail-biting convolutional decoding

US8548102B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 12, 2010
Grant dateOct 1, 2013
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Expiry dateJan 1, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/6525
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for enhanced processing of received channels in a mobile communications system is described. Particularly, convolutionally encoded tail biting data in a mobile communications system is efficiently decoding by replicating the received encoded signal N times, where N equals a number of iterations. A Viterbi decoding algorithm is applied and a most likely survivor path is obtained. The ensuing decoding window is set as a fixed decoding window and placed at a mid-section of the most likely survivor path. Simulations have shown codeword accuracy to be comparable to MLSE with less complexity. A high degree of accuracy has been obtained for N=3.

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