Performance analysis of SOVA for random bit stream

In this paper the performance of Soft Output Viterbi decoding Algorithm (SOVA) has been discussed with the simulation results. SOVA for the various constraint lengths and for different generator polynomials are simulated and discussed. Performance of SOVA for burst and random errors are also tested. Performance evaluation in terms of error correction capability of Convolutional Coding and Decoding (CODEC) using SOVA is shown through simulation using burst error recovery technique.