DocumentCode
780883
Title
Serial turbo decoder for robust communication
Author
Chuah, T.C. ; Pu, C.H.
Author_Institution
Fac. of Eng., Multimedia Univ., Selangor, Malaysia
Volume
41
Issue
7
fYear
2005
fDate
3/31/2005 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
427
Lastpage
429
Abstract
A new serial turbo decoder for robust communication in the presence of impulsive noise is proposed and examined. The new decoder iteratively performs robust maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding by cascading a nonlinear MAP inner decoder incorporating a non-quadratic penalty function with an MAP outer decoder. Results show that the proposed serial turbo decoder facilitates considerable performance improvement.
Keywords
impulse noise; iterative decoding; turbo codes; MAP outer decoder; impulsive noise; iterative decoder; maximum a posteriori decoding; nonlinear MAP inner decoder; nonquadratic penalty function; robust communication; serial turbo decoder; serially concatenated convolutional codes;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20057361
Filename
1421243
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