Title :
Turbo codes for binary symmetric and binary erasure channels
Author :
Tepe, Kemal E. ; Anderson, John B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Comput. & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
The turbo codes (TC) were proposed for soft output channels such as the additive white Gaussian channel (AWGN). We investigate the behaviour of turbo codes for hard output channels, namely binary symmetric channels (BSC) and binary erasure channels (BEC)
Keywords :
decoding; telecommunication channels; turbo codes; AWGN; additive white Gaussian channel; binary erasure channels; binary symmetric channels; decoder; hard output channels; soft output channels; turbo codes; AWGN channels; Bit error rate; Equations; Error correction; Gaussian channels; Iterative decoding; Probability; Quantization; Turbo codes; Viterbi algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708640
