Capacity-approaching irregular turbo codes for the binary erasure channel
IEEE Transactions on Communications
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It is known that both Viterbi and sequential decoding of convolutional codes can be greatly simplified by employing punctured convolutional codes, which are obtained by periodically deleting a part of the bits of a low-rate convolutional code. Even if the original low-rate convolutional code is noncatastrophic, some deleting maps may result in rate (n-1)/n catastrophic punctured encoders. An algorithm is presented to identify such encoders when the original rate 1/b encoder is antipodal. The major part of the algorithm solves a linear equation of /spl nu/+1 variables, where /spl nu/ is the constraint length of the original rate 1/b code.