In telecommunication, a convolutional code is a type of error-correcting code in which
- each m-bit information symbol (each m-bit string) to be encoded is transformed into an n-bit symbol, where m/n is the code rate (n ≥ m) and
- the transformation is a function of the last k information symbols, where k is the constraint length of the code.
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