The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for computing soft scaling factors to convert {TAIL ~ initial symbol estimates} of received symbols to {HEAD ~ soft estimates} for decoding 
The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for computing soft scaling factors to convert { TAIL ~ initial symbol estimates } of received symbols to { HEAD ~ soft estimates } for decoding
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