Impact of the mapping strategy on the performance of APP decoded space-time block codes

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4685-4690

  Sezgin, Aydin ^a   Jorswieck, Eduard A ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

EXIT charts; Iterative decoding; Mapping; Space time codes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TURBO CODES;

EXIT-CHARTS; ITERATIVE DECODING; MAPPING STRATEGY; SPACE TIME CODES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 29144463224     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.859243     Document Type: Article

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