DocumentCode
1243158
Title
Terminating the trellis of turbo-codes in the same state
Author
Barbulescu, A.S. ; Pietrobon, S.S.
Author_Institution
Australian Space Centre for Signal Process., South Australia Univ., The Levels, SA, Australia
Volume
31
Issue
1
fYear
1995
fDate
1/5/1995 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
22
Lastpage
23
Abstract
A new type of interleaver for rate-1/2 turbo-codes is designed which allows both encoders of a turbo-encoder to end in the same state. This will improve the performance of turbo-codes when a maximum a posteriori decoding algorithm is used in an iterative decoder
Keywords
convolutional codes; decoding; trellis codes; decoding algorithm; encoders; interleaver; iterative decoder; rate-1/2 turbocodes; turbo-codes;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19950008
Filename
364323
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