Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesA novel stopping criterion for turbo decoding

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A Novel Stopping Criterion for Turbo Decoding,"
by E. I. Kalantzis, P.I. Dallas, and B. S. Sharif
in the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), pp. 24-37

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied without attribution.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following two articles:

"A Simple Stopping Criterion for Turbo Decoding"
by Y. Wu, B. D. Woerner, and W. J. Ebel
in IEEE Communications Letters, August 2000, pp. 258-260,

"Two Simple Stopping Criteria for Turbo Decoding,"
By Rose Y. Shao, Shu Lin, and Marc P. C. Fossorier,
in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 47, No. 8, Aug. 1999, pp.1117-1120.

This paper proposes a novel stopping criterion for turbo decoding. The new sign variation (SV) criterion calculates the difference of sign values between the extrinsic information of two consecutive iterations. Unlike the methods used so far, it requires no extra data storage. Simulations comparing the new technique with other well-known stopping criteria show that the proposed SV scheme achieves similar performance in terms of BER, while requiring less iterations and lower complexity.