ETRI Journal
- Volume 28 Issue 5
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- Pages.672-675
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- 2006
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- 1225-6463(pISSN)
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- 2233-7326(eISSN)
The Effect of Block Interleaving in an LDPC-Turbo Concatenated Code
- Lee, Sang-Hoon (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
- Joo, Eon-Kyeong (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
- Received : 2006.04.10
- Published : 2006.10.31
Abstract
The effect of block interleaving in a low density parity check (LDPC)-turbo concatenated code is investigated in this letter. Soft decoding can be used in an LDPC code unlike the conventional Reed-Solomon (RS) code. Thus, an LDPC-turbo concatenated code can show better performance than the conventional RS-turbo concatenated code. Furthermore, the performance of an LDPC-turbo code can be improved by using a block interleaver between the LDPC and turbo code. The average number of iterations in LDPC decoding can also be reduced by a block interleaver.