Title :
Simple stopping criterion for turbo decoding
Author :
Ngatched, T.M.N. ; Takawira, F.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Natal Univ., Durban, South Africa
fDate :
10/25/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A simple and effective criterion for stopping the iteration process in turbo decoding with negligible degradation of the error performance is presented. The new, improved hard-decision-aided (IHDA) extends the existing hard-decision-aided (HDA). Unlike the HDA, it requires no extra data storage, while achieving similar performance in terms of the BER and average number of iterations
Keywords :
error statistics; iterative decoding; turbo codes; BER; bit error rate; error performance; improved hard-decision-aided method; iteration process; stopping criterion; turbo decoding;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010896
