Efficient computation of EXIT functions for nonbinary iterative decoding

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2133-2136

  Kliewer, Jörg ^a,b   Ng, Soon Xin ^a   Hanzo, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts; Nonbinary iterative decoding; Turbo trellis coded modulation (TTCM)

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; TRELLIS CODES; TURBO CODES;

EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER CHARTS; NONBINARY ITERATIVE DECODING; TURBO TRELLIS-CODED MODULATION;

DECODING;

EID: 33845744468     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.885050     Document Type: Article

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