A low-complexity turbo decoder architecture for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-22

  Li, Liang ^a   Maunder, Robert G ^a   Al Hashimi, Bashir M ^a   Hanzo, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy efficient; error correcting code (ECC); Log BCJR algorithm; turbo code

Indexed keywords

ADD-COMPARE-SELECT; BAHL-COCKE-JELINEK-RAVIV; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY-CONSTRAINED; ERROR CORRECTING CODE; LOOKUPS; LOW-COMPLEXITY; TRANSMISSION ENERGY CONSUMPTION; TURBO DECODERS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TURBO CODES;

EID: 84871773330     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2011.2177104     Document Type: Article

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