A robust metric for soft-output detection in the presence of class-A noise

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-40

  Fertonani, Dario ^a   Colavolpe, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achievable information rate; Impulse noise; Soft output detection

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DECODING; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMPULSE NOISE;

ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATE; CHANNEL CODES; CHANNEL MODELS; COMMUNICATION SCHEMES; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; ROBUST DETECTIONS; SOFT-OUTPUT DETECTION;

ITERATIVE DECODING;

EID: 60149090563     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.0901.070041     Document Type: Article

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