Construction for obtaining trellis run length limited error control codes from convolutional codes

Peter Farkaš – Frank Schindler

   Recently a new construction of run length limited block error control codes based on control matrices of linear block codes was proposed. In this paper a similar construction for obtaining trellis run length limited error control codes from convolutional codes is described. The main advantage of it, beyond its simplicity is that it does not require any additional redundancy except the one which is already contained in the original convolutional error control code. One example is presented how to get such a code from a convolutional low density parity check code.

Keywords: run length limited code error correcting code, convolutional code, convolutional low density parity check code, trellis run length limited error control code

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