Everything about BCJR algorithm

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BCJR algorithmA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Least-squares-assisted BCJR algorithm for severe ISI mitigation in bandwidth-limited IM/DD optical interconnectionInfluential work since 2022
3. Read the landmark paper: Concatenated decoding with a reduced-search BCJR algorithmCited 149 times
4. Go sideways: Inverse-gamma distributionA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Cyclotomic fast Fourier transformA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Concatenated decoding with a reduced-search BCJR algorithm

  V. Franz, J.B. Anderson · 1998 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 149 citations

• Reduced-state BCJR-type algorithms

  C. Colavolpe, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli · 2001 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 103 citations

• Reduced-Complexity BCJR Algorithm for Turbo Equalization

  Dario Fertonani, Alan Barbieri, Giulio Colavolpe · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 64 citations

• Novel Reduced-State BCJR Algorithms

  Cheran M. Vithanage, Christophe Andrieu, Robert J. Piechocki · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 12 citations

• Reduced‐trellis equalization using the M‐BCJR algorithm

  Christina Fragouli, Nambirajan Seshadri, William Turin · 2001 · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing · 9 citations

• M-BCJR algorithm with channel shortening based on ungerboeck observation model for faster-than-Nyquist signaling

  Hui Che, Yong Bai · 2021 · China Communications · 9 citations

• A Generalized BCJR Algorithm and Its Use in Iterative Blind Channel Identification

  Jake Gunther, David Keller, Todd Moon · 2007 · IEEE Signal Processing Letters · 8 citations

• Neural network implementation of the BCJR algorithm

  Murat Hüsnü Sazlı, Can Işık · 2007 · Digital Signal Processing · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Least-squares-assisted BCJR algorithm for severe ISI mitigation in bandwidth-limited IM/DD optical interconnection

  Shaonan Liu, Jun Ming, Junyuan Song · 2025 · Optics Express · 2 citations

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