Title :
Improving the performance of turbo codes through concatenation with rectangular parity check codes
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
We show that a concatenated code with a simple rectangular-parity-check outer code and a turbo inner code performs significantly better than a turbo code alone
Keywords :
concatenated codes; interleaved codes; iterative decoding; turbo codes; concatenated code; inner code; iterative MAP decoding; outer code; performance improvement; rectangular parity check codes; turbo codes; Additive white noise; Binary phase shift keying; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Error analysis; Feedforward systems; Iterative decoding; Parity check codes; Signal to noise ratio; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7123-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2001.936007
