Title :
Bounds on information combining for the accumulator of repeat-accumulate codes without Gaussian assumption
Author :
Land, Ingmar ; Hoeher, Peter A. ; Sayir, Jossy
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Coding Theor. Lab., Kiel Univ., Germany
fDate :
27 June-2 July 2004
Abstract :
Information combining is applied to an accumulator to obtain bounds on the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) functions without relying on Gaussian or other approximations for the distribution of the a-priori messages.
Keywords :
convolutional codes; iterative decoding; EXIT function; accumulator; extrinsic information transfer; information combining; repeat-accumulate codes; Communication channels; Convolutional codes; Information analysis; Mutual coupling; Mutual information; Noise figure; Parity check codes; Telecommunications; Turbo codes; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8280-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365480
