Enhanced Turbo Decoding for Error Floor Reduction

Conference: SCC 2013 - 9th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communication and Coding
01/21/2013 - 01/24/2013 at München, Deutschland

Proceedings: SCC 2013

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Pfletschinger, Stephan; Navarro, Monica (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain)

Abstract:
In this paper, we consider enhanced decoding of turbo codes in the error floor region. Allowing no modifications at the transmitter side, we focus on enhanced decoding algorithms which aim principally at reducing the error floor. We employ a combination of two methods which have been applied separately in the literature: the correction impulse method (CIM) and the list Viterbi algorithm (LVA). We explicitly consider the impact of a practical error detection code and show its limitations.