Title :
Maximum a posteriori decoding and turbo codes for general memoryless channels
Author :
Measson, C. ; Urbanke, Rudiger
Author_Institution :
EPFL, Lausanne
Abstract :
We derive further properties of EXIT and generalized EXIT curves. In particular we present an area theorem for iterative (as compared to MAP) decoding, we show how to compute upper-bounds on the MAP threshold for general channels and we apply these techniques to turbo codes
Keywords :
maximum likelihood estimation; turbo codes; general memoryless; generalized EXIT curves; maximum a posteriori decoding; turbo codes; Belief propagation; Concatenated codes; Degradation; Entropy; Iterative decoding; Kernel; Physics computing; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9151-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2005.1523540
