Increasing the speed of parallel decoding of turbo codes


Autoria(s): Taskaldiran, M.; Morling, R.C.S.; Kale, I.
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2009

Resumo

Turbo codes experience a significant decoding delay because of the iterative nature of the decoding algorithms, the high number of metric computations and the complexity added by the (de)interleaver. The extrinsic information is exchanged sequentially between two Soft-Input Soft-Output (SISO) decoders. Instead of this sequential process, a received frame can be divided into smaller windows to be processed in parallel. In this paper, a novel parallel processing methodology is proposed based on the previous parallel decoding techniques. A novel Contention-Free (CF) interleaver is proposed as part of the decoding architecture which allows using extrinsic Log-Likelihood Ratios (LLRs) immediately as a-priori LLRs to start the second half of the iterative turbo decoding. The simulation case studies performed in this paper show that our parallel decoding method can provide %80 time saving compared to the standard decoding and %30 time saving compared to the previous parallel decoding methods at the expense of 0.3 dB Bit Error Rate (BER) performance degradation.

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http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/7414/1/Taskaldiran_Morling_Kale_2009_as_published.pdf

Taskaldiran, M., Morling, R.C.S. and Kale, I. (2009) Increasing the speed of parallel decoding of turbo codes. In: PRIME: 2009 PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. Proceedings. Cork, Ireland, 12-17 July 2009. IEEE, pp. 304-307. ISBN 9781424437337

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en

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IEEE

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http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/7414/

https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RME.2009.5201330

10.1109/RME.2009.5201330

Palavras-Chave #Science and Technology
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