Construction of encoders with small decoding look-ahead for input-constrained channels
Jonathan J. Ashley, Brian H. Marcus, Ron M. Roth · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1995
An input-constrained channel is defined as the set S of finite sequences generated by a finite labeled directed graph which defines the channel. A construction based on a result of Adler, Goodwyn, and Weiss (1977) is presented for finite-state encoders for input-constrained channels. Let G=(V, E) denote a smallest deterministic presentation of S. For a given input-constrained channel S and for any rate p: q up to the capacity c(S) of S, the construction provides finite-state encoders of fixed-rate p: q that can be implemented in hardware with a number of gates which is at most polynomially large in |V|. When p/q>