• DocumentCode
    3559577
  • Title

    A low complexity block turbo decoder architecture - [transactions letters]

  • Author

    Vanstraceele, C. ; Geller, B. ; Brossier, J.M. ; Barbot, J.-P.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. SATIE, ENS Cachan, Cachan
  • Volume
    56
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    12/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1985
  • Lastpage
    1987
  • Abstract
    In this letter we present a low-complexity architecture designed for the decoding of block turbo codes. In particular we simplify the implementation of Pyndiah´s algorithm by not storing any of the concurrent codewords generated by the list decoder.
  • Keywords
    block codes; decoding; turbo codes; Pyndiah´s algorithm; concurrent codewords; low-complexity block turbo decoder architecture; Block codes; Convolutional codes; Digital communication; Equations; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Laboratories; Maximum likelihood decoding; Power system reliability; Turbo codes; Block codes; iterative decoding; low-complexity design; turbo codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Location
    12/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2008.050636
  • Filename
    4711158