THE CONDITION FOR THE APPLICABILITY OF THE VITERBI ALGORITHM WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR FADING CHANNEL MLSD

Authors
CHUGG KM
Citation
Km. Chugg, THE CONDITION FOR THE APPLICABILITY OF THE VITERBI ALGORITHM WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR FADING CHANNEL MLSD, IEEE transactions on communications, 46(9), 1998, pp. 1112-1116
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Telecommunications,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00906778
Volume
46
Issue
9
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1112 - 1116
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-6778(1998)46:9<1112:TCFTAO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The general condition for the optimality of the Viterbi algorithm (VA) as a method for implementing maximum-likelihood sequence detection (M LSD) is described. It is shown that this folding condition is not met for the fading linear Gaussian channel. This clarifies previously publ ished results and allows approaches for approximate MLSD to be viewed as an attempt to force the VA as a suboptimal solution.