Performance analysis of linear codes under maximum-likelihood decoding: a tutorial
Communications and Information Theory
A channel representation method for the study of hybrid retransmission-based error control
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Good error correcting output codes for adaptive multiclass learning
MCS'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Multiple classifier systems
Performance bounds and distance spectra of variable length codes in turbo/concatenated systems
IEEE Transactions on Communications
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The ensemble performance of parallel and serial concatenated turbo codes is considered, where the ensemble is generated by a uniform choice of the interleaver and of the component codes taken from the set of time-varying recursive systematic convolutional codes. Following the derivation of the input-output weight enumeration functions of the ensembles of random parallel and serial concatenated turbo codes, the tangential sphere upper bound is employed to provide improved upper bounds on the block and bit error probabilities of these ensembles of codes for the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, based on coherent detection of equi-energy antipodal signals and maximum-likelihood decoding. The influence of the interleaver length and the memory length of the component codes is investigated. The improved bounding technique proposed here is compared to the conventional union bound and to a alternative bounding technique by Duman and Salehi (1998) which incorporates modified Gallager bounds. The advantage of the derived bounds is demonstrated for a variety of parallel and serial concatenated coding schemes with either fixed or random recursive systematic convolutional component codes, and it is especially pronounced in the region exceeding the cutoff rate, where the performance of turbo codes is most appealing. These upper bounds are also compared to simulation results of the iterative decoding algorithm