Title :
Asymmetric turbo-codes
Author :
Takeshita, O.Y. ; Collins, O.M. ; Massey, P.C. ; Costello, D.J., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Notre Dame Univ., IN, USA
Abstract :
This paper examines the performance of turbo-codes with non-identical component codes. We show that asymmetric turbo-codes provide good performance with respect to both the "error-floor" and the "pre-error-floor" regions of the bit error rate curve.
Keywords :
concatenated codes; convolutional codes; turbo codes; asymmetric turbo-codes; bit error rate curve; error-floor region; nonidentical component codes; performance; pre-error-floor region; Bit error rate; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Feedback; Interleaved codes; Iterative decoding; NASA; Performance analysis; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708776
