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Near Shannon limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo-codes. 1

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In this article, a new class of convolutional codes called turbo-codes, whose performances in terms of bit error rate (BER) are close to the Shannon limit, is discussed.
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A new class of convolutional codes called turbo-codes, whose performances in terms of bit error rate (BER) are close to the Shannon limit, is discussed. 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. >

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A low complexity soft-output Viterbi decoder architecture

TL;DR: A means to adapt the classical architecture of a Viterbi decoder to make it able to provide soft (weighted) decisions is presented and an application to the decoding of concatenated convolutional codes, with the proposed soft-output decoder as the inner decoder is examined.