Title :
On the error floor analysis of turbo codes: weight spectrum estimation (WSE) scheme
Author :
Yeh, Ping-Cheng ; Yilmaz, A. Özgür ; Stark, Wayne E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EECS, Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
fDate :
29 June-4 July 2003
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose an efficient method to find the smallest-weight codewords of a turbo code with specific interleavers. This enables us to obtain accurate approximations to the error floor performance of turbo codes.
Keywords :
error analysis; turbo codes; error floor analysis; smallest-weight codewords; turbo codes; weight spectrum estimation scheme; Computational modeling; Concatenated codes; Error analysis; Interleaved codes; Notice of Violation; Performance analysis; Spectral analysis; Turbo codes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7728-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2003.1228456
