Bi-directional SOVA decoding for turbo-codes

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 405-407

  Chen, Jinghu ^a   Fossorier, Marc P C ^a   Lin, Shu ^b   Xu, Chengqi ^c  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ITERATIVE METHODS; TRELLIS CODES; TURBO CODES; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BIDIRECTIONAL DECODING; DIAGONAL COVARIANCE MATRIX; SOFT OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHM DECODING;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

EID: 0034462442     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4234.898722     Document Type: Article

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