Publications [#235796] of Robert Calderbank

Journal articles or Book chapters PUBLISHED

1. Calderbank, AR; Mazo, JE; Wei, VK, ASYMPTOTIC UPPER BOUNDS ON THE MINIMUM DISTANCE OF TRELLIS CODES., IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. COM-33 no. 4 (January, 1985), pp. 305-309 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/17)

   Abstract:
   A trellis code is a 'sliding window' method of encoding a binary data stream as a sequence of signal points. When a trellis code is used to encode data at the rate of k bits/channel symbol, each channel input depends not only on the most recent block of k bits to enter the encoder, but will also depend on a set of upsilon bits preceding this block. The upsilon bits determine the state of the encoder and the most recent block of k bits generates the channel symbol conditional on the encoder state. The performance of a trellis code depends on a suitably defined minimum distance property of that code. This paper obtained upper bounds on this minimum distance that are better than any previously known.