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An improved methodology to design rate compatible punctured turbo codes

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In this work, we improve a methodology to design families of Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo Codes in order to provide lower Bit Error Rate at the error floor region considering small size interleavers (<1,024) and their particular structure.

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Abbreviations

RCPC:

Rate Compatible Punctured Convolutional Code

RCPT:

Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo Code

RSC:

Recursive Systematic Convolutional Code

BER:

Bit Error Rate

SNR:

Signal to noise ratio

N :

Interleaver’s size frame

d free :

Free distance

PSI:

Practical Size Interleaver

DRP:

Dithered Relative Prime Interleaver

p :

puncturing period

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  1. División de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito Exterior, Coyoacán, 04510, México D.F., Mexico

    Lazcano-Salas Saul & García-Ugalde Francisco

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The present work presents an improved methodology to design families of Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo Codes in order to provide lower Bit Error Rate at the error floor region considering small size interleavers (<1,024) and their particular structure.

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Saul, LS., Francisco, GU. An improved methodology to design rate compatible punctured turbo codes. SIViP 4, 405–408 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-009-0130-7

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