• DocumentCode
    2057100
  • Title

    A new upper bound on the minimum distance of turbo codes

  • Author

    Perotti, Alberto ; Benedetto, Sergio

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Multimedia Radio Commun., Politecnico di Torino
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    2004
  • Firstpage
    313
  • Lastpage
    313
  • Abstract
    A new upper bound on the minimum distance of turbo codes is derived. It improves over existing ones and shows that the minimum distance grows approximately with the base-3 logarithm of the information word length
  • Keywords
    error correction codes; turbo codes; base-3 logarithm; information word length; turbo codes; Convolutional codes; Electronic mail; Error correction codes; Error probability; Feedback; Hamming weight; Multimedia communication; Radio communication; Turbo codes; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8280-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365350
  • Filename
    1365350