ABSTRACT

The vision of wireless communication providing high-speed and high-quality information exchange between two portable devices located anywhere in the world is the communications frontier of the current century. In this busy and unsecure world you need to be sure your data is not only safe and secure but that you are working with it at the highest speed possible. Convolutional encoding is a forward error correction technique that is used for correction of errors at the receiver end. Viterbi decoding is the technique for decoding the convolutional codes. The Viterbi Algorithm, an application of dynamic

programming, is widely used for estimation and detection problems in digital communications and signal processing. It is used to detect signals in communications channels with memory, and to decode sequential error control codes that are used to enhance the performance of digital communication systems. The Viterbi decoding algorithm is widely used in radio communication: digital TV (ATSC, QAM, DVB-T,), radio relay and satellite communications. This thesis represents the implementation of 3-bit soft decision Viterbi decoder o constraint length with a code rate (R)

of and its algorithm. Frequency of soft decision Viterbi decoder has been increased by using pipelining. Also puncturing technique is implemented in matlab to verify different transmission code rates. The

plots of simulation results of bit error rate (BER) with different code rates are obtained from matlab code.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost I place this project work on the feet of GOD ALMIGHTY who is the power of strength in each step of progress towards the successful completion of phase I project. I would like to express my sense of profound gratitude and indebtedness to Dr.R.VIJAYABHSKER, M.E.,Ph.D., for his invaluable guidance, suggestion and timely supervision for successful completion of the phase I project. I am highly indebted to Dr.V.R.VIJAYKUMAR, B.E.,M.E.,Ph.D., Head of the Department of ECE for providing invaluable insights into the subject and helping me wherever possible. I thank Dr.K.SARAVANA KUMAR, MBA., Ph.D., Regional Director Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore for his great support with blessings. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to all staff members of ECE Department who have rendered their valuable help in making this project successful. Above all I would like to thank all the members of my family and friends for their constructive criticism and constant support in making this project a grand success.

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