Patent Document ID: 20120036416
Application ID: 13023430
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method in a wireless communication system for decoding tail biting convolutional codes (TBCCs) with a List Viterbi algorithm (LVA), the method comprising: receiving a signal containing a TBCC; determining a list of potential states from the received signal, a size of the list being L s , L s being determined from potential states identified in a single Viterbi algorithm; determining a list of potential codewords for each state in the list of potential states, a size of the list of potential codewords being L c ; and operating a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code to determine a final decoding solution for a List Viterbi algorithm (LVA)-tail biting convolutional codes (TBCC) algorithm using the list of potential codewords.