Algorithm for continuous decoding of turbo codes

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 314-315

  Benedetto, S ^a   Divsalar, D ^b   Montorsi, G ^a   Pollara, F ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolutional codes; Decoding; Turbo codes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIGITAL TRANSMISSION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY; PARALLEL CONCATENATED CONVOLUTIONAL CODING; TURBO CODES;

DECODING;

EID: 0030086345     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960217     Document Type: Article

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