• DocumentCode
    3606165
  • Title

    Comments on “Bitwise Log-Likelihood Ratios for Quadrature Amplitude Modulations”

  • Author

    Papaharalabos, Stylianos ; Mathiopoulos, P. Takis ; Martina, Maurizio ; Masera, Guido

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. of Wireless Commun., Nat. Centre for Sci. Res. `Demokritos´, Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    2049
  • Lastpage
    2050
  • Abstract
    With reference to a recently published letter, the purpose of our contribution is two-fold. Firstly, to point out that, what is referred to as a new approximation function MinC (see Eqs. (5)-(8) of Park, 2015) has been previously published (see Eq. (12) of Papaharalabos et al., 2009). Secondly, we present additional related published works of ours, which have further investigated the subject of bitwise log-likelihood ratio (LLR) simplification in soft-output decoding, but have not been mentioned in Park, 2015.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; decoding; quadrature amplitude modulation; approximation function; bitwise log-likelihood ratios; quadrature amplitude modulations; soft-output decoding; Chebyshev approximation; Complexity theory; Decoding; Demodulation; Jacobian matrices; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Jacobian logarithm; Soft-output demodulation/decoding; bitwise log-likelihood ratio (LLR); bitwise loglikelihood ratio (LLR);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2480080
  • Filename
    7272037