JPL is responsible for many space missions, as part of NASA's continuing unmanned exploration of the solar system. Signals from spacecraft at planetary distances arrive at Earth with poor S/N ratio. To reduce errors, the signals are encoded with an inner code of Viterbi encoding. One of the key parameters of Viterbi encoding is the constraint length. Previous space missions have used a constraint length of 7. Newer missions use 15, to give a considerably improved error correction ability. However, the complexity of the Viterbi decoder is increased so as to be 256 times more complex.


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    Title :

    (abstract) MCD3 - A Constraint Length 15 Viterbi Decoder


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    Publication date :

    1996-09-08


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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