DocumentCode
2271029
Title
Maximum a posteriori decoding and turbo codes for general memoryless channels
Author
Measson, C. ; Urbanke, Rudiger
Author_Institution
EPFL, Lausanne
fYear
2005
fDate
4-9 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
1241
Lastpage
1245
Abstract
We derive further properties of EXIT and generalized EXIT curves. In particular we present an area theorem for iterative (as compared to MAP) decoding, we show how to compute upper-bounds on the MAP threshold for general channels and we apply these techniques to turbo codes
Keywords
maximum likelihood estimation; turbo codes; general memoryless; generalized EXIT curves; maximum a posteriori decoding; turbo codes; Belief propagation; Concatenated codes; Degradation; Entropy; Iterative decoding; Kernel; Physics computing; Turbo codes;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9151-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2005.1523540
Filename
1523540
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