• DocumentCode
    3015797
  • Title

    On optimal power allocation for turbo codes

  • Author

    Duman, Tolga M. ; Salehi, Masoud

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    29 Jun-4 Jul 1997
  • Firstpage
    104
  • Abstract
    A scheme for optimum power allocation for the different bits of a turbo code is introduced. It is shown that by employing this scheme performance improvements in the range of 0.5-0.7 dB can be achieved without introducing any complexity or delay at the decoder
  • Keywords
    concatenated codes; convolutional codes; optimal power allocation; parallel concatenated convolutional codes; performance improvements; turbo codes; Code standards; Concatenated codes; Convolution; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Delay; Euclidean distance; Power distribution; Signal to noise ratio; Turbo codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory. 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Ulm
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3956-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.1997.613019
  • Filename
    613019