Title :
A new technique to determine the upper threshold for finite length turbo codes
Author :
Rajesh, A. ; Chaturvedi, A.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kanpur, India
Abstract :
There exist two SNR thresholds in finite frame length turbo codes. These thresholds depend on the component encoder as well as the frame length. A simple technique to find the upper threshold using the EXIT chart method is proposed.
Keywords :
iterative decoding; turbo codes; EXIT chart method; component encoder; finite frame length turbo codes; iterative decoding SNR threshold; mutual information; successive iteration exchanged soft information; upper SNR threshold determination; AWGN; Bit error rate; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Entropy; Feedback; Iterative decoding; Random variables; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Personal Wireless Communications, 2005. ICPWC 2005. 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8964-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICPWC.2005.1431310
