Optimization Algorithms for Improving the Performance of Permutation Trellis Codes

Oluwafemi Kolade, Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa, Daniel J. J. Versfeld +1

In this paper, soft-decision (SD) decoders of permutation trellis code (PTC) with $M$-ary frequency shift keying are designed using three optimization algorithms and presented in f…