We analyze the asymptotic performance of punctured turbo codes. The analysis is based on the union bound on the word error probability of maximum likelihood decoding for a punctured turbo code ensembles averaged over all possible puncturing patterns and interleavers. By using special probabilistic puncturing, we prove that, for a given mother turbo code ensemble [C] with a finite noise threshol...

In this paper a new class of lattices called turbo lattices is introduced and established. We use the lattice Construction D to produce turbo lattices. This method needs a set of nested linear codes as its underlying structure. We benefit from turbo codes as our basis codes. Therefore, a set of nested turbo codes based on nested interleavers and nested convolutional codes is built. To this end,...

This thesis studies a new method of combining Turbo Codes with various modulation techniques to take advantage of inherent trade-o s between BER performance, code rate, spectral e ciency and decoder complexity. Our new method, which we call Symbol-Based Turbo Codes, parses the parallel data streams of the Turbo Code encoder into n-bit symbols and maps each symbol to a point in a 2n-ary signal s...

In this paper a new class of lattices called turbo lattices is introduced and established. We use the lattice Construction D to produce turbo lattices. This method needs a set of nested linear codes as its underlying structure. We benefit from turbo codes as our basis codes. Therefore, a set of nested turbo codes based on nested interleavers (block interleavers) and nested convolutional codes i...

ELECT Non-binary turbo codes promise excellent performance for a wide range of applications and environments, but research in this area is sparse. The performance of a non-binary turbo code defined in GF (4) on a two-way wireless relay channel (TWRC) employing physical-layer network coding, which is affected by impulsive noise is investigated. Simulation results for binary and non-binary turbo ...

but also improves the uniformity of the spray pattern. Turbulence chamber nozzles are available in a turbo flood tip and now in the turbo flat-fan design. The turbo flatfan design shows great improvements in pattern uniformity when compared to the extended range flat-fan and other drift reduction flat-fan designs. In addition, the turbo flat-fan has significantly reduced the percentage of drift...

The main problem concerning the hardware implementation of turbo codes is the lack of parallelism in the MAP-based decoding algorithm. This paper proposes to overcome this problem with a new family of turbo codes, named Slice Turbo Codes. This family is based on two ideas: the encoding of each dimension with P independent tail-biting codes and a constrained interleaver structure that allows par...

Turbo decoders applied in wireless communications are complex and dissipate large amount of power. In this paper, we investigate design & simulation of Turbo algorithm for wireless communications applications, including our proposed Simulink model of Turbo decoder. The schemes employed in our low-power design are clock-gating and toggle filtering. We described the behavior of Turbo decoders in ...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and convolutional Turbo codes are two of the most powerful error correcting codes that are widely used in modern communication systems. In a multi-mode baseband receiver, both LDPC and Turbo decoders may be required. However, the different decoding approaches for LDPC and Turbo codes usually lead to different hardware architectures. In this paper we propose...

This paper presents the characteristics of an integrated circuit called "turbo4" which can be used as a turbo-encoder or as a turbo-decoder. The turbo-encoder is built using a parallel concatenation of two recursive systematic convolutional codes with constraint length K=5. The turbo-decoder is cascadable, each circuit processing one iteration of the turbo-decoding algorithm. It is designed aro...