Title :
On the minimum distance of turbo codes
Author :
Truhachev, Dmitri ; Lentmaier, Michael ; Wintzel, Ola ; Zigangirov, Kamil Sh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Lund Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
A permutor (interleaver) design method is presented to show the existence of turbo codes with minimum distance growing logarithmically with the permutor length. It is demonstrated, that the method can also be useful for the construction of turbo codes with practical block lengths.
Keywords :
interleaved codes; turbo codes; interleaver; minimum distance; permutor design; turbo codes; Convolutional codes; Councils; Design methodology; Information technology; Parity check codes; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7501-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023356