A heuristic discussion of probabilistic decoding
Robert M. Fano · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1963
This is another in a series of invited tutorial, status and survey papers that are being regularly solicited by the PTGIT Committee on Special Papers. We invited Profess01 Fano to commit to paprr his elegant but, unelaborate explanation of the principles of sequential decoding, a scheme which is currently contending for a position as the most practical implementation to dale of Shannon’s theory of noisy communication channels. -&e&l Pcqwrs Committw.