Wireless data transmission results in frequency and phase offsets of the signal in the receiver. In addition, the received symbols are corrupted by noise. Therefore, synchronization and channel coding are vital parts of each receiver in digital communication systems. By combining the phase and frequency synchronization with an advanced iterative channel decoder (inner loop) e.g. turbo codes in ...

This report presents information on modeling and implementation of turbo codes. Turbo coding is a very powerful error correction technique that has made a tremendous impact on channel coding in the last few years. It outperforms all previously known coding schemes by achieving near Shannon limit error correction using simple component codes and large interleavers. The use of turbo codes enhance...

This is a tutorial paper meant to introduce the reader to the new concept of turbo codes. This is a new and very powerful error correction technique which outperforms all previous known coding schemes. It can be used in any communication system where a significant power saving is required or the operating signal–to–noise ratio is very low. Deep space communications, mobile satellite/cellular co...

Turbo Codes are very flexible codes and it can be considered as one of the great achievements in the field of communication systems. Turbo Codes have been adopted for wireless digital communication system and they remain unaffected even under heavy traffic situation. The MAX-Log MAP Algorithm which performs necessary computation in Log domain has the capacity to reduce hardware complexity. Majo...

In this paper, we derive bit error performance bounds for turbo codes on Nakagami fading channels with diversity combining. We first derive the average pairwise error probability expressions for turbo codes with maximal ratio combining (MRC), equal gain combining (EGC), and selection combining (SC) on Nakagami fading channels. Using the pairwise error probability expressions and the union bound...

Ultra high-speed block turbo decoder architectures meet the demand for even higher data rates and open up new opportunities for the next generations of communication systems such as fiber optic transmissions. This paper presents the implementation, onto an FPGA device of an ultra high throughput block turbo code decoder. An innovative architecture of a block turbo decoder which enables the memo...

The goal of this work is to design and analyze the performance of various multiuser coding and iterative decoding methods for inter-symbol interference(ISI) networks. The introduction of turbo coding and iterative decoding [1] schemes have changed the coding and detection landscape drastically. The research efforts on turbo and turbo-like techniques continue on many fronts including deep-space ...

Most existing Turbo unequal error protection (UEP) codes provide two error protection levels at the cost of extending the block size of the codeword or increasing the computational complexity. This paper proposes two novel Turbo UEP coding schemes, which provide multiple error protection levels for information bits, according to their different sensitivities to the channel noise. By permuting t...

A useful tool in the design of reliable digital communication systems is channel coding. Turbo codes have been shown to yield an outstanding coding gain close to theoretical Shannon limit in the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. This is due to relatively large coding gains that can be achieved. Over the past decade, turbo codes have been widely considered to be one of the most power...

Speech recognition is a classic example of a human/ machine interface, typifying many of the difficulties and opportunities of human/machine interaction. In this paper, speech recognition is used as an example of applying turbo processing principles to the general problem of human/machine interface. Speech recognizers frequently involve a model representing phonemic information at a local level...