• DocumentCode
    1738387
  • Title

    Reducing the error floor in turbo codes by using non-binary constituent encoders

  • Author

    Garcia-Frias, Javier ; Cabarcas, Felipe

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    1230
  • Abstract
    We propose the utilization of non-binary trellis codes as constituent codes for turbo codes. This allows to increase the free distance of the resulting turbo code with respect to traditional schemes, and leads to a reduction in the error floor. The price to pay is a slight performance degradation at low values of Eb/N0. The proposed approach can be applied with other techniques based on interleaver design, therefore producing further reduction in the error floor
  • Keywords
    concatenated codes; error statistics; interleaved codes; trellis codes; turbo codes; constituent codes; error floor reduction; free distance; interleaver design; nonbinary constituent encoders; nonbinary trellis codes; parallel concatenated codes; turbo codes; Bismuth; Bit error rate; Computer errors; Convolutional codes; Degradation; Euclidean distance; Iterative decoding; Maximum likelihood decoding; Signal to noise ratio; Turbo codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vehicular Technology Conference, 2000. IEEE-VTS Fall VTC 2000. 52nd
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • ISSN
    1090-3038
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6507-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VETECF.2000.886297
  • Filename
    886297
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1738387