Convolutional codes represent a cornerstone in modern communications, offering a method for continuously encoding data streams to mitigate errors due to interference and noise. These codes operate by ...
The theoretical alternative—maximum-likelihood decoding—has long been known to be optimal but was considered computationally impossible for practical systems, belonging to the notoriously difficult #P ...
It is well known that the decoding of zero rate stabilizer codes can be mapped onto statistical mechanics models with quenched disorder. Statistical mechanics mappings were first developed for ...