On the achievable extrinsic information of inner decoders in serial concatenation

Jörg Kliewer, Axel Huebner, Daniel J. Costello

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Abstract

In this paper we address the extrinsic information transfer functions of inner decoders for a serially concatenated coding scheme. For the case of an AWGN channel, we give a universal proof for the fact that only inner encoders yielding an infinite output weight for a weight-one input sequence, such as recursive convolutional encoders, lead to perfect extrinsic information at the output of the corresponding SISO decoder. As an example we consider bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative demapping (BICM-ID) and insert an additional recursive precoder prior to the mapping operation. Simulation results show that the proposed system does not suffer from an error floor and thus significantly outperforms BICM-ID systems that solely use mappings as inner encodings, even when they are optimized.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2006
Pages2680-2684
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2006 - Seattle, WA, United States
Duration: Jul 9 2006Jul 14 2006

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8101

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle, WA
Period7/9/067/14/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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