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Near Shannon limit error-correcting coding and decoding

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1993

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Claude Berrou

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Abstract

Abstract- This paper deals with a new class of convolutional codes called Turbo-codes, whose performances in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) are close to the SHANNON limit. The Turbo-Code encoder is built using a parallel concatenation of two Recursive Systematic Convolutional codes and the associated decoder, using a feedback decoding rule, is implemented as P pipelined identical elementary decoders. Consider a binary rate R=1/2 convolutional encoder with constraint length K and memory M=K-1. The input to the encoder at time k is a bit dk and the corresponding codeword