Estimating the PDF of the SIC-MMSE equalizer output and its applications in designing LDPC codes with turbo equalization

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 278-287

  Narayanan, Krishna R ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^b   Yue, Guosen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Low density parity check (LDPC) codes; Soft interference cancellation plus linear minimum mean square error (SIC MMSE); Turbo equalization

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

GAUSSIAN DENSITIES; LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC) CODES; SOFT INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION PLUS LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; TURBO EQUALIZATION;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 19944365554     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.840196     Document Type: Article

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