Nonlinear analysis of the iterative decoding of parallel concatenated convolutional codes

Frederic Lehmann, Gian Mario Maggio

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Abstract

In this correspondence, we introduce a simple one-dimensional (1-D) nonlinear map to describe the iterates of the bit-error rate (BER) of parallel-concatenated convolutional codes (PCCC) on the binary-input Gaussian channel. A lower bound on this map is derived based upon the weight enumerator of the constituent codes, thus enabling the characterization of the dynamics of the decoder in terms of fixed points, along with the associated stability analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2190-2198
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume51
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Concatenated codes
  • Density evolution
  • Gaussian densities
  • Iterative decoding
  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Stability condition

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