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An Efficient Iterative Decoding Stop Criterion Algorithm using Error Probability Variance Value of Turbo Code  

Jeong Dae ho (원광대학교 전자공학과)
Shim Byoung sup (원광대학교 전자공학과)
Lim Soon Ja (원광대학교 전자공학과)
Kim Tae hyung (익산대학 전자정보과)
Kim Hwan yong (원광대학교 전자공학과)
Abstract
Turbo code, a kind of error correction coding technique, has been used in the field of digital mobile communication systems. And it is well known about the fact that turbo code has better the BER performance as the number of decoding iterations increases in the AWGN channel environment. However, as the number of decoding iterations is increased under the several channel environments, any further iteration results in very little improvement, and it requires much delay, computation and power consumption in proportion to the number of decoding iterations. In this paper, it proposes the efficient iterative decoding stop criterion algorithm which can largely reduce the average number of decoding iterations of turbo code. Through simulations, it is verifying that the proposed algorithm can efficiently stop the iterative decoding by using the variance value of error probability for the soft output value, and can largely reduce the average number of decoding iterations without BER performance degradation. As a result of simulation, the average number of decoding iterations for the proposed algorithm is reduced by about 2.25% ~14.31% and 3.79% ~14.38% respectively compared to conventional schemes, and power consumption is saved in proportion to the number of decoding iterations.
Keywords
Turbo Code; Iterative Decoding; Stop Criterion Algorithm; Variance Value;
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