On the effect of truncation length on the exact performance of a convolutional code

In this correspondence, we first correct a mistake in Best et al. (1995) and then present a method to compute the exact probability of information bit error as a function of truncation length K for a rate 1/2, 2 state code, Finally, we generalize the method to compute the exact bit-error probability of the above convolutional code when the information bits are transmitted in blocks. The simulation results are compared with the analytical results and good agreement is observed.