Generalized EXIT Chart and BER Analysis of Finite-Length Turbo Codes

Conference Record / IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2067-2072

  Lee, Jeong W ^a   Blahut, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DECODING; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER (EXIT); TRANSFER CHARACTERISTIC BANDS (TCB);

TURBO CODES;

EID: 0842332449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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