On Tail Biting Convolutional Codes
H. Ma, Jack K. Wolf · IRE Transactions on Communications Systems · 1986
In this paper, we introduce generalized tail biting encoding as a means to ameliorate the rate deficiency caused by zero-tail convolutional encoding. This technique provides an important link between quasi-cyclic block and convolutional codes. Optimum and suboptimum decoding algorithms for these codes are described and their performance determined by analytical and simulation techniques.