Everything about Viterbi decoder

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Viterbi decoderA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Viterbi Decoder under Class A Modeled Noise in Shallow WaterInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: On decoding of multi-level MPSK modulation codesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Implementation of High Speed Viterbi Decoder using FPGACited 139 times
5. Go sideways: Convolutional codeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Viterbi algorithmA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Implementation of High Speed Viterbi Decoder using FPGA

  Amruta J Mandwale, Altaf O Mulani, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering Korti · 2016 · International Journal of Engineering Research and · 139 citations

• Memory Management in a Viterbi Decoder

  C. Rader · 1981 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 110 citations

• Packet combining systems based on the Viterbi decoder

  B.A. Harvey, S.B. Wicker · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 91 citations

• An artificial neural net Viterbi decoder

  Xiao-An Wang, S.B. Wicker · 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 81 citations

• Low-power Viterbi decoder for CDMA mobile terminals

  I. Kang, A.N. Willson · 1998 · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 76 citations

• A VLSI design for a trace-back Viterbi decoder

  T.K. Truong, M.-T. Shih, I.S. Reed · 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 55 citations

• A reconfigurable, power-efficient adaptive Viterbi decoder

  R. Tessier, S. Swaminathan, R. Ramaswamy · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 49 citations

• Error-Resilient Low-Power Viterbi Decoder Architectures

  R.A. Abdallah, N.R. Shanbhag · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 42 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Viterbi Decoder under Class A Modeled Noise in Shallow Water

  Yifei Wang, Huili Fan, Xuebo Zhang · 2022 · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing · 11 citations

• Power and area optimized adaptive Viterbi decoder for high speed communication applications

  Namratha, Md. Bakhar · 2022 · International Journal of Information Technology · 10 citations

• 76.5-Gb/s Viterbi Decoder for Convolutional Codes on GPU

  Zhanxian Liu, Chufan Liu, Haijun Zhang · 2025 · IEEE Embedded Systems Letters · 8 citations

• Automated In-Situ Monitoring for Variability-Resilient and Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits Demonstrated on a Viterbi Decoder in 22-nm CMOS

  Clara Nieto Taladriz, Wim Dehaene · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 6 citations

• Efficient Computation of Viterbi Decoder Reliability With an Application to Variable-Length Coding

  Alex Baldauf, Adam Belhouchat, Shakeh Kalantarmoradian · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕On decoding of multi-level MPSK modulation codesLin, Shu. · 1990
• 📕Fault tolerance in space-based digital signal processing and switching systemsRobert Redinbo · 1994
• 📕Investigation of the use of erasures in a concatenated coding schemeS. C. Kwatra · 1997

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