Spatially Coupled Turbo Codes
Paper in proceeding, 2014

In this paper, we introduce the concept of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), as the turbo codes counterpart of spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes. We describe spatial coupling for both Berrou et al. and Benedetto et al. parallel and serially concatenated codes. For the binary erasure channel, we derive the exact density evolution (DE) equations of SC-TCs by using the method proposed by Kurkoski et al. to compute the decoding erasure probability of convolutional encoders. Using DE, we then analyze the asymptotic behavior of SC-TCs. We observe that the belief propagation (BP) threshold of SC-TCs improves with respect to that of the uncoupled ensemble and approaches its maximum a posteriori threshold. This phenomenon is especially significant for serially concatenated codes, whose uncoupled ensemble suffers from a poor BP threshold.

Author

Saeedeh Moloudi

Lund University

Michael Lentmaier

Lund University

Alexandre Graell i Amat

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, ISTC

21654700 (ISSN) 21654719 (eISSN)

82-86 6955090
978-1-4799-5985-3 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ISTC.2014.6955090

ISBN

978-1-4799-5985-3

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