The EXIT-characteristic of softbit-source decoders

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 540-542

  Adrat, Marc ^a   Brauers, Johannes ^a   Clevorn, Thorsten ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

EXIT characteristic; Softbit source decoding

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE (AWGN) CHANNEL; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER (EXIT) CHARACTERISTIC; SOFTBIT SOURCE DECODING (SBSD);

DECODING;

EID: 21444442880     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1437364     Document Type: Article

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