• 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