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Efficient stop criterion algorithm of the turbo code using the maximum sign change of the LLR  

Shim Byoung-Sup (Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University)
Jeong Dae-Ho (Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University)
Lim Soon-Ja (Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University)
Kim Tae-Hyung (Department of Electronic & Information, Iksan National College)
Kim Hwan-Yong (Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University)
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Abstract
It is well known the fact that turbo codes has better performance as the number of iteration and the interleaver size increases in the AWGN channel environment. However, as the number of iteration and the interleaver size are increased, it is required much delay and computation for iterative decoding. Therefore, it is important to devise an efficient criterion to stop the iteration process and prevent unnecessary computations and decoding delay. In this paper, it proposes the efficient stop criterion algorithm for turbo codes using the maximum sign change of LLR. It is verifying that the proposal variable iterative decoding controller can be reduced the average iterative decoding number compared to conventional schemes with a negligible degradation of the error performance.
Keywords
Turbo Codes; Iterative decode; Stop criterion; Log-MAP;
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