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7 - Turbo Codes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

William Ryan
Affiliation:
Zeta Associates Inc.
Shu Lin
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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Turbo codes, which were first presented to the coding community in 1993, represent one of the most important breakthroughs in coding since Ungerboeck introduced trellis codes in 1982. In fact, the invention of turbo codes and their iterative “turbo” decoders started a revolution in iteratively decodable codes and iterative receiver processing (such as “turbo equalization”). Most frequently, a turbo code refers to a concatenation of two (or more) convolutional encoders separated by interleavers. The turbo decoder consists of two (or more) soft-in/soft-out convolutional decoders which iteratively feed probabilistic information back and forth to each other in a manner that is reminiscent of a turbo engine. In this chapter we introduce the most important classes of turbo codes, provide some heuristic justification as to why they should perform well, and present their iterative decoders. Our focus will be on parallel-and serial-concatenated convolutional codes (PCCCs and SCCCs) on the binary-input AWGN channel, but we also include the important class of turbo product codes. These codes involve block codes arranged as rows and columns in a rectangular array of bits. The decoder is similar to that for PCCCs and SCCCs, except that the constituent decoders are typically suboptimal soft-in/soft-out list decoders. The reader is advised to consult the leading papers in the field for additional information on the codes considered in this chapter: [4–19]. Our focus is on the binary-input AWGN channel. Nonbinary turbo codes for the noncoherent reception of orthogonal signals are considered in [20].

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Channel Codes
Classical and Modern
, pp. 298 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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  • Turbo Codes
  • William Ryan, Shu Lin, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Channel Codes
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803253.008
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  • Turbo Codes
  • William Ryan, Shu Lin, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Channel Codes
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803253.008
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  • Turbo Codes
  • William Ryan, Shu Lin, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Channel Codes
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803253.008
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