• DocumentCode
    327309
  • Title

    Turbo code performance as a function of code block size

  • Author

    Dolinar, Sam ; Divsalar, Dariush ; Pollara, Fabrizio

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    16-21 Aug 1998
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Abstract
    We show that a single family of turbo codes is “nearly perfect” with respect to Shannon´s (1959) sphere-packing bound, over a wide range of code rates and block sizes. We also assess the “imperfectness” of various non-turbo codes for comparison,
  • Keywords
    turbo codes; Shannon´s sphere-packing bound; code block size; code rates; convolutional code; imperfectness; nonturbo codes; performance; turbo codes; AWGN; Additive noise; Channel capacity; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Interleaved codes; Laboratories; Maximum likelihood decoding; Propulsion; Turbo codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Cambridge, MA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5000-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.1998.708612
  • Filename
    708612
    • Link To Document
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