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Convolutional Codes

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Convolutional codes have been widely used in applications such as space and satellite communications, cellular mobile, digital video broadcasting etc. Its popularity stems from simple structure and availability of easily implementable maximum likelihood soft decision decoding methods.

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Vucetic, B., Yuan, J. (2000). Convolutional Codes. In: Turbo Codes. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 559. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4469-2_3

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