Title :
Turbo-decoding of nonbinary codes
Author :
Berkmann, Jens ; Burkert, Frank
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany
fDate :
29 Jun-4 Jul 1997
Abstract :
It is shown how parallel concatenation of nonbinary codes can be put into the same framework of iterative decoding as in the binary case. The turbo-code(turbo-decoding-) idea is extended to nonbinary block codes
Keywords :
block codes; concatenated codes; iterative methods; linear codes; maximum likelihood decoding; maximum likelihood estimation; MAP decoding; a priori estimate; channel estimate; extrinsic estimate; iterative decoding; linear systematic block code; maximum a posteriori decoding; nonbinary block codes; parallel concatenation; turbo-code; turbo-decoding; AWGN; Binary codes; Block codes; Convolutional codes; Demodulation; Impedance matching; Iterative decoding; Memoryless systems; Reed-Solomon codes; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory. 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3956-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1997.613142
