Near-capacity iterative decoding of binary self-concatenated codes using soft decision demapping and 3-D EXIT charts

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1608-1616

  Butt, Muhammad Fasih Uddin ^a,b   Riaz, Raja Ali ^a,b   Ng, Soon Xin ^a   Hanzo, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

3 D EXIT charts; Iterative decoding; Near capacity code design; SECCC; Self concatenated convolutional codes

Indexed keywords

3-D EXIT CHARTS; ATTRACTIVE SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY; CODE DESIGNS; DEMAPPING; EXIT-CHARTS; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER CHARTS; INTERLEAVERS; NEAR-CAPACITY CODE DESIGN; RECURSIVE SYSTEMATIC CONVOLUTIONAL CODE; SOFT DECISION;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONCATENATED CODES; CONVOLUTION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DESIGN; GRAPHIC METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBO CODES;

ITERATIVE DECODING;

EID: 77952261311     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.05.081254     Document Type: Article

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