A new adaptive trellis decoding technique for block codes is proposed. The technique is based on an encoding technique which allows the design of almost all known linear codes together with their minimal trellises. The proposed adaptive trellis decoding technique allows the implementation of a single soft maximum likelihood trellis decoder for decoding of different codes. It has been shown that both the encoding and decoding techniques can be implemented with a low complexity and cost.
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