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IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

Estimates of the bit error probabilities for linear block codes and symmetric binary-input memoryless channels

Vladimir B. Balakirsky

Published Aug 27, 2003• 1 citation
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Abstract

A coset representation of the bit error probabilities for binary linear block codes and arbitrary symmetric memoryless channels is derived. Such a representation leads to simple upper bounds on the bit error probabilities for code components expressed via 2n code spectra, where n is the code length, and to a "bounded distance decoding" algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is illustrated for the (23,12) Golay code and a particular channel having non-binary output alphabet where it attains a sub-optimum performance.

DOI
10.1109/itw.2002.1115446

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