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To the Theory of Low-Density Convolutional Codes. II

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A theoretical and experimental analysis of iterative decoding of low-density convolutional (LDC) codes is given. Two families are investigated: homogeneous LDC codes and a convolutional code version of turbo-codes.

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Lentmaier, M., Truhachev, D.V. & Zigangirov, K.S. To the Theory of Low-Density Convolutional Codes. II. Problems of Information Transmission 37, 288–306 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013815115684

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