DocumentCode
1720262
Title
Designing turbo codes for low error rates
Author
Berrou, Claude ; Douillard, Catherine ; Jézéquel, Michel
Author_Institution
Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun. de Bretagne, Brest, France
fYear
1999
fDate
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
42370
Lastpage
42376
Abstract
This paper describes the ways to construct turbo codes using a parallel concatenation of convolutional codes, in order to minimize the effects of flattening. Bit error rates as low as 10-10 may thus be reached by the associated decoder at signal to noise ratios not far from the theoretical limits, for different data block sizes and various coding rates
Keywords
turbo codes; BER; bit error rates; coding rates; data block sizes; decoder; interleaving design; iterative decoding; low error rates; parallel concatenated convolutional codes; signal to noise ratios; turbo codes design;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Turbo Codes in Digital Broadcasting - Could It Double Capacity? (Ref. No. 1999/165), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19990781
Filename
829845
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