A general structure for rate-compatible concatenated codes

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 437-439

  Brännström, Fredrik ^a   Graell i Amat, Alexandre ^b   Rasmussen, Lars K ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bounding techniques; Code design; Concatenated codes; EXIT charts; Parallel concatenated codes; Rate compatible; Serially concatenated codes

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS;

CODE DESIGN; CODE STRUCTURE; PARRALLEL CONCATENATED CODES; SERIALLY CONCATENATED CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 34249801788     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.061748     Document Type: Article

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