An Efficient Iteration Decoding Stopping Criterion for Turbo Codes

  • Byoung-Sup Shim
  • Hyoung-Keun Park
  • Sun-Youb Kim
  • Yu-Chan Ra
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4706)

Abstract

It is well known the fact that turbo codes has better performance as the number of iteration and the interleaver size increases in the AWGN channel environment. However, as the number of iteration and the interleaver size are increased, it is required much delay and computation for iterative decoding. Therefore, it is important to devise an efficient criterion to stop the iteration process and prevent unnecessary computations and decoding delay. In this paper, we propose a new stop criterion for decoding turbo codes. It is verifying that the proposal iterative decoding stop criterion can be reduced the average iterative decoding number compared to conventional schemes with a negligible degradation of the error performance.

Keywords

Iterative decoding MAP Turbo codes Stop criteria 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Byoung-Sup Shim
    • 1
  • Hyoung-Keun Park
    • 2
  • Sun-Youb Kim
    • 2
  • Yu-Chan Ra
    • 2
  1. 1.Research & Development Center, Leotek Co. Ltd.Korea
  2. 2.Dept. Electronic & Information Comm. Eng. Namseoul Univ.Korea

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