Viterbi: error bounds and asymptotically optimum decoding for convolutional codes

What changed

Introduced the decoding algorithm with performance error bounds for convolutional codes.

Scientific scope

The record is Viterbi's sole-author 1967 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory paper. It does not absorb later trellis terminology, hidden-Markov uses, hardware implementations or all coding-theory developments.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Viterbi's sole-author 1967 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory paper. It does not absorb later trellis terminology, hidden-Markov uses, hardware implementations or all coding-theory developments.

Contributors

• Andrew J. Viterbi · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• IEEE DOI for Viterbi decoding paper

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