Title :
Improving turbo decoding via cross-entropy minimization
Author :
Buckley, M. Eoin ; Krishnamachari, Bhuma ; Wicker, Stephen B. ; Hagenauer, Joachim
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We show that the decoding performance of a simple turbo code can be improved by cross-entropy minimization via manipulation of the initial a priori probabilities
Keywords :
entropy; error statistics; iterative decoding; minimisation; probability; turbo codes; BER; cross-entropy minimization; initial a priori probabilities; turbo decoding; Bit error rate; Communication system control; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Entropy; Iterative decoding; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sorrento
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5857-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2000.866356
