Abstract
An explicit method is given to evaluate Viterbi's union bounds on both the first event error probability and the bit error probability of binary convolutional codes on a binary symmetric channel. These bounds are evaluated for the rate1/2code with generators1 + D + D^{2}and1 + D^{2}. Comparison is made with the bounds and experimental results of van de Meeberg.

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