DocumentCode :
3560654
Title :
Unified scaling factor approach for turbo decoding algorithms
Author :
Yue, Dian-Wu ; Nguyen, Ha H.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
Volume :
4
Issue :
8
fYear :
2010
Firstpage :
905
Lastpage :
914
Abstract :
Turbo (iterative) decoding can be implemented with a large family of soft-input soft-output (SISO) algorithms, including suboptimal but practical algorithms such as the soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) and max-log-MAP algorithm. The performance with these practical algorithms can be improved with simple scaling factor methods. However, their theoretical analysis was mainly based on the relaxed assumption proposed by Papke et al. that the extrinsic information is Gaussian distributed. This study proposes a novel scaling factor approach for reducing both the overestimation of reliability values and the correlation between the intrinsic and extrinsic information. Explicit formulae for computing the scaling factors are derived based on mathematical statistics. A key difference compared to the scaling factor method of Papke et al. is that the proposed scaling factors can be computed off-line. The numerical results show that when implemented in the decoding algorithm of block component codes, the proposed scaling factor approach improves the performance of turbo decoding over additive white Gaussian noise and Rayleigh fading channels. It is superior than the method by Papke et al. in both performance and complexity.
Keywords :
AWGN; Gaussian distribution; Rayleigh channels; block codes; iterative decoding; telecommunication network reliability; turbo codes; Gaussian distribution; Rayleigh fading channels; SISO algorithms; SOVA; additive white Gaussian noise; block component codes; iterative decoding; max-log-MAP algorithm; reliability values overestimation; scaling factor approach; scaling factor methods; soft-input soft-output algorithms; soft-output Viterbi algorithm; turbo decoding algorithms; unified scaling factor approach;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Communications, IET
Publisher :
iet
ISSN :
1751-8628
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1049/iet-com.2009.0125
Filename :
5470324
Link To Document :
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