Burst decoding of binary block codes onQ-ary output channels (Corresp.)
S. Wainberg, Jack K. Wolf · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1972
The burst-bdistance between two binary vectors is defined and shown to be a metric. This definition is applied to a binary-input,Q-ary output channel where errors occur in bursts. A decoding algorithm is presented for such a channel that is an extension of Weldon's [2] weighted erasure decoding. Examples are presented illustrating the techniques.