EXIT charts for system design and analysis

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-153

  El Hajjar, Mohammed ^a   Hanzo, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

concatenated codes; convolutional codes; EXIT charts; mutual information; turbo codes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894671180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.050813.00137     Document Type: Article

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