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
fDate :
1/5/1995 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950008
