• DocumentCode
    2008715
  • Title

    Monte Carlo distance spectrum method for estimating BER of turbo codes

  • Author

    Nakajima, Shigeo ; Sato, Eiichi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Infor. & Elect. Eng., Niigata Inst. of Technol., Japan
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    29 June-4 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    436
  • Abstract
    A method for estimating the bit-error rate (BER) of turbo codes called the Monte Carlo distance spectrum method is proposed. Testing this method shows that the estimated BER curves closely approximate the results of a Monte Carlo simulation alone for a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios.
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; error statistics; turbo codes; BER estimation; Monte Carlo simulation; distance spectrum method; signal-to-noise ratios; turbo codes; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Computer errors; Error probability; Hamming distance; Monte Carlo methods; Radiofrequency interference; Signal to noise ratio; Testing; Turbo codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7728-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2003.1228453
  • Filename
    1228453