Saving memory in turbo-decoders using the Max-Log-MAP algorithm

IEE Colloquium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue 165, 1999, Pages 131-134

  Raouafi, Fathi ^a   Dingninou, Adodo ^a   Berrou, Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

LOGARITHM LIKELIHOOD RATIO (LLR); MAP ALGORITHMS; REAL NUMBERS; SOFT OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHM (SOVA);

TURBO CODES;

EID: 6344292372     PISSN: 09633308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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