Viterbi decoding

I am using "vitdec" in Matlab with 'trunc' and 'unquant' propoerties
for decoding real-valued data in between almost -2.5 and 2.5 (i.e.
binary values with interference and noise). The interesting problem is
that I'm having intervals of %100 correct detections and %100 wrong
decisions (bits are flipped) in my decoded stream. It's like the
detector changes sign and switches between two intervals for some
reason. If I can prevent this switching that means %100 accurate
detection. I don't know how to make sense of this and why this is
happening.  Any ideas?

On Apr 10, 7:24=A0pm, Elnaz <ebsadegh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using "vitdec" in Matlab with 'trunc' and 'unquant' propoerties
> for decoding real-valued data in between almost -2.5 and 2.5 (i.e.
> binary values with interference and noise). The interesting problem is
> that I'm having intervals of %100 correct detections and %100 wrong
> decisions (bits are flipped) in my decoded stream. It's like the
> detector changes sign and switches between two intervals for some
> reason. If I can prevent this switching that means %100 accurate
> detection. I don't know how to make sense of this and why this is
> happening. =A0Any ideas?

Use differential encoding and decoding so that information is
carried by the transitions or lack thereof instead of the raw value.
At the encoder, transmit c_n =3D c_{n-1} XOR d_n where d_n
is the data bit. At the decoder, recover d_n =3D r_n XOR r_{n-1}
where r_n's are the outputs of the Viterbi decoder.  Note that
d_n is recovered correctly if  r_n and r_{n-1} are both correct
or both flipped.
are bo