Packet Transmission with Turbo Codes over Fading Channels

This paper presents the main issues of using turbo coding schemes in wireless packet transmission networks, including rate compatibility, channel estimation and header encapsulation. We claim that incorporating payload information bits, pilot bits and header bits into the code structure yields performance improvements in terms of bit error probability and easiness of implementation. We propose a novel idea of code construction using frequent trellis termination which has interesting properties making it particularly suitable for packet transmission.