Pseudocodeword

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The result obtained when a decoder fails to converge on a codeword, but instead converges on some other code structure.

    "We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights."

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"We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights."

Etymology

From pseudo- + codeword.

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