Development of a universal turbo codec and its performance characteristics

Author

Gunter, J. ; Hubbard, Ella-Mae ; Jacobson, R. ; Klein, M.

Author_Institution

Div. of Commun. & Electron. Warfare, Titan Syst. Corp., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

153

Abstract

A flexible, configurable turbo codec engine for both military and commercial applications has recently been developed at Titan Systems under a jointly funded dual use science and technology (DUS&T) program sponsored by the US Army CECOM. Results indicate that the universal turbo codec (UTC) provides 2-4 dB of performance improvement over standard convolutional codes and greater than 1 dB improvement over turbo product codes. The performance, configuration, features and implementation of the UTC using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware is described.

Keywords

codecs; concatenated codes; convolutional codes; turbo codes; commercial-off-the-shelf hardware; concatenated codes; convolutional codes; field programmable gate array; phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; universal turbo codec; Convolutional codes; Demodulation; Electronic warfare; Engines; Field programmable gate arrays; Iterative decoding; Jacobian matrices; Military communication; Modulation coding; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM '03. 2003 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8140-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290094

Filename

1290094