Critical Point for Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes
<|reference_start|>Critical Point for Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes: In this letter, the SNR value at which the error performance curve of a soft decision maximum likelihood decoder reaches the slope corresponding to the code minimum distance is determined for a random code. Based on this value, referred to as the critical point, new insight about soft bounded distance decoding of random-like codes (and particularly Reed-Solomon codes) is provided.<|reference_end|>
@article{fossorier2005critical,
    title={Critical Point for Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes},
    author={Marc Fossorier},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0504032},
    year={2005},
    doi={10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1506713},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0504032},
    primaryClass={cs.IT math.IT}
}