@article{13708, keywords = {punctured convolutional codes, soft-decision Viterbi decoding}, author = {Kjell Hole}, title = {New short constraint length rate (n-1)/n punctured convolutional codes for soft-decision Viterbi decoding}, abstract = {Punctured convolutional codes with good performance are reported for rates ( n -1)/ n with n =5, 6, 7, 8 and constraint lengths k =2, 3, . . ., 6. The tabulated codes are nonsystematic binary convolutional codes with maximum free distance and minimum information weight, for use with soft-decision Viterbi decoding}, year = {2002}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory}, volume = {34}, pages = {1079-1081}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/18.21236}, }