A search for good convolutional codes to be used in the construction of turbo codes

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1101-1105

  Benedetto, Sergio ^a   Garello, Roberto ^a   Montorsi, Guido ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concatenated coding; Convolutional codes; Encoders; Turbo codes

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; CODE CONVERTERS;

CONCATENATED CODING; RECURSIVE SYSTEMATIC CONVOLUTIONAL ENCODERS; TURBO CODES;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 0032162745     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.718548     Document Type: Article

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