Title :
The iterative turbo decoding algorithm has fixed points
Author :
Duan, Long ; Rimoldi, Bixio
Author_Institution :
Ericsson Wireless Commun. Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
fDate :
11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is shown that the iterative decoding algorithm proposed to decode “turbo codes” has fixed points regardless of the specific constituent codes and regardless of the noise variance of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel
Keywords :
AWGN channels; concatenated codes; iterative decoding; turbo codes; AWGN channel; additive white Gaussian noise channel; fixed points; iterative turbo decoding algorithm; noise variance; parallel-concatenation coding; turbo codes; AWGN; Additive white noise; Algorithm design and analysis; Belief propagation; Gaussian noise; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Stability; Turbo codes; Upper bound;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
