• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2C
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• pp.25-30
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• 2005

Turbo code is popularly used for the reliable communication in the presence of burst errors. Even if it shows good error performance near to the Shannon limits, it requires a large amount of memories and exhibits long latency. This paper proposes an architecture for the low power implementation of the Turbo decoder adopting the Max-Log-Map algorithm. In the proposed design, two SISO decoders are designed to operate in parallel, and a novel interleaver is designed to prevent the collision of memory accesses by two SISO decoders. Experimental results show that power consumption has been reduced by about 40% in the proposed decoder compared to previous Turbo decoders. The area overhead due to the additional interleaver controller is negligible.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2019

This paper proposes a variable data transfer asymmetric TDD(Time Division Duplex) system for small UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) data link system. In the proposed method, a turbo decoder with a double buffer controller is proposed to apply turbo decoder with long decoding time to asymmetric TDD system. The proposed method achieves variable data transfer rate and maximum data transfer rate. The advantage of the proposed method is demonstrated by its data transfer rate. The measured data transfer rate is more than 1.8 times than that of symmetric TDD system. In addition, PER(Packet Error Rate) performance is the same and data transfer rate is variable.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.11
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• pp.50-57
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• 2013

This paper provides a design of high-throughput parallel turbo decoder that is able to decode several packets of various length simultaneously. For high-speed communications, designing of Turbo decoder as parallel structures reduces the long decoding time caused by iterative turbo decode way. Also, by employing the double buffer structure for input and output packets improves the decoder throughput by enabling continuous decoding. Because parallel turbo decoder is designed to be able to decode the packet of the longest length, there exist idle PE's(Processing Element) in the case of decoding packets of short length. The main idea of this paper is to increase the utilization of PE's in parallel Turbo decoder and to improve the decoder throughput by using the idle PE's immediately for the subsequent packets decoding. For this, the control is necessary to enable the concurrent decoding of several short packets and we propose the method of this control. Applying the proposed method, we implemented Turbo Decoder with 32 PE's that can decode packets of 6144 bits maximum. Compared to the conventional Turbo decoder, although the area was increased about 16%, the decoder throughput was improved 28 times for short packets.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.533-536
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• 2005

MAP algorithm is known for optimal decoding algorithm of Turbo codes, but it has very large computational complexity and delay. Generally log-MAP algorithm is used in order to overcome the defect. In this paper we propose modified scheme of the state metric calculation block which can improve the computation speed in log-MAP decoder and simple linear offset unit without using LUT. The simulation results show that the operation speed of the proposed scheme is improved as compared with that of the past scheme.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.183-191
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• 2010

In the recent digital communication systems, the performance of Turbo Code used as the error correction coding method depends on the interleaver size influencing the free distance determination and the iterative decoding algorithms of the turbo decoder. However, some iterations are needed to get a better performance, but these processes require a large time delay. Recently methods of reducing the number of iteration have been studied without degrading original performance. In this paper, the new method of combining ME (Mean Estimate) stopping criterion with SDR (sign difference ratio) stopping criterion among previous stopping criteria is proposed, and the fact of compensating each method's missed detection is verified. Faster decoding is realized that about 1~2 time iterations to reduced through adopting this method into serially concatenated both decoders. System Environments were assumed W-CDMA forward link system with intense MAI (multiple access interference).

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.4 no.2 s.7
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• pp.257-265
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• 2000

Turbo Code decoder is an iterate decoding technology, which extracts extrinsic information from the bit to be decoded by calculating both forward and backward metrics in each decoding step, and uses the information to the next decoding step. Viterbi decoder, which is for a convolutional code, runs continuous mode, while Turbo Code decoder runs by block unit. There are algorithms used in a decoder : which are MAP(maximum a posteriori) algorithm requiring very complicated calculation and SOVA(soft output Viterbi algorithm) using Viterbi algorithm suggested by Hagenauer, and it is known that the decoding performance of MAP is better. The result of this make experimentation shows that the performance of SOVA, which has half complex algorithm compare to MAP, is almost same as the performance of MAP when the SOVA decoding performance is supplemented with Robust equalization techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2010

본 논문은 Shannon의 정리에 따른 채널 용량에 근접한 성능을 보이는 것으로 알려진 터보 복호기 기반의 반복적인 검출과 복호화(Iterative Detection and Decoding) 기법에서 반복적인 복호화를 수행할 시에 제외되었던 리스트 구 복호기(List Sphere Decoder)에서 사전 정보(prior information)을 이용할 수 있도록 하여 수정된 IDD 기법을 제안하였다. 기존의 기법에서는 사후확률(A posteriori probability)을 계산하기 위하여 리스트 구 복호기를 사용하였으나 반복적인 복호화 수행 시에는 사전 정보를 이용하지 않는 특성으로 인하여 제외된다. 만약 잡음(noise) 등의 이유로 검출된 심볼 벡터 목록이 원래의 것과 매우 다른 경우라도 재 검출을 하지 않기 때문에 반복적인 복호화를 수행하더라도 원래의 정보에 근접하기 어렵게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존의 기법에서 리스트 구 복호기를 터보 복호기의 Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) 값을 사전 정보로 이용할 수 있도록 수정된 리스트 구 복호기를 제안하였다. 수정된 리스트 복호기는 반복적인 복호화를 수행 시 이전의 복호화에서 얻은 정보를 이용하여 새로이 검출된 심볼 벡터 목록을 제공하게 된다. 실제의 통신환경과 유사한 모델의 실험을 통해 수정된 IDD 기법이 기존의 IDD로 구성되는 내부 피드백에 RS 복호기 기반의 외부 피드백으로 구성된 형태로 피드백 회수가 증가할수록 기존의 IDD에 비해 성능이 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.665-671
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• 2010

In this paper, a turbo equalizer is proposed for the digital video broadcasting for terrestrial - 2nd generation (DVB-T2) system. The proposed turbo equalizer is consisted with the maximum a posteriori (MAP) and low density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The channel information for the soft-input-soft-output (SISO) MAP equalizer is based on the least square (LS) channel estimator. The performance is analyzed through computer simulations in terms of the iteration number.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.504-511
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• 2016

In this paper, MIMO system based on turbo equalization techniques which LDPC codes were outer code and space time trellis codes (STTC) were employed as an inner code are studied. LDPC decoder and STTC decoder are connected through the interleaving and de-interleaving that updates each other's information repeatedly. In conventional turbo equalization of MIMO system, BCJR decoder which decodes STTC coded bits required two-bit wise decoding processing. Therefore duo-binary turbo codes are optimal for MIMO system combined with STTC codes. However a LDPC decoder requires bit unit processing, because LDPC codes can't be applied to these system. Therefore this paper proposed turbo equalization for MIMO system based on LDPC codes combined with STTC codes. By the simulation results, we confirmed performance of proposed turbo equalization model was improved about 0.6dB than that of conventional LDPC codes.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.309-309
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• 2003

본 논문은 MAP(Maximum A Posteriori) 복호 알고리즘을 이용한 MAP Decoder의 설계에 관해 다룬다. 채널코딩기법은 채널을 통해서 디지털 정보를 전송할 때 신뢰성을 제공하기 위해서 사용되어진다. 즉 수신 단에서 수신된 정보의 오류를 검사하고 수정하기 위한 목적으로 송신 단에서는 디지털 정보에 부가 정보를 첨가해서 전송하게 된다. 그래서 무선 이동 통신에서 성능이 우수한 채널코딩기법은 우수한 통신 품질을 위해서는 필수적이라고 할 수 있다. 최근에 Shannon의 한계에 매우 근접한 성능으로 많이 알려진 오류정정부호로 터보코드가 발표되었고 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 터보코드의 부호기로는 RSC(Recursive Systematic Convolutional) 코드가 사용되며 복호 알고리즘으로는 주로 MAP 복호 알고리즘을 사용한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 MAP 복호기는 하드웨어로 구현하기 위해서 변형된 LOG-MAP 복호 알고리즘을 이용하였고 터보디코더의 반복 복호에 이용할 수 있다.