Title :
Unequal error protection on turbo-encoder output bits
Author :
Mohammadi, A.H.S. ; Khandani, A.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
fDate :
2/13/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Traditional turbo codes using BPSK modulation provide equal noise margins for the turbo-encoder output bits. It is shown that imposing unequal error protection (UEP) on the encoder output bits improves the code performance
Keywords :
coding errors; concatenated codes; error correction; phase shift keying; BPSK modulation; noise margin; turbo code; turbo-encoder output bits; unequal error protection;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19970178
