A BEAST for prowling in trees

• When searching for convolutional codes and tailbiting codes of high complexity it is of vital importance to use fast algorithms for computing their weight spectra, which corresponds to finding low-weight paths in their code trellises. This can be efficiently done by a combined search in both forward and backward code trees. A bidirectional efficient algorithm for searching such code trees (BEAST) is presented. For large encoder memories, it is shown that BEAST is significantly more efficient than comparable algorithms. BEAST made it possible to rind new convolutional and tailbiting codes that have larger free (minimum) distances than the previously best known codes with the same parameters. Tables of such codes are presented.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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tailbiting codes

distance

convolutional codes

bidirectional search

free

distance spectrum

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