A factor graph approach to iterative channel estimation and LDPC decoding over fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1345-1350

  Niu, Huaning ^a   Shen, Manyuan ^a   Ritcey, James A ^a   Liu, Hui ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor graph; Iterative receiver; LDPC; PSAM

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; GRAPH THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOW PASS FILTERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FACTOR GRAPH; ITERATIVE RECEIVER; LDPC; PSAM;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 27744433179     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.850273     Document Type: Article

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