An upper bound on turbo codes performance over quasi-static fading channels Academic Article

abstract

• This letter proposes an upper bound on the performance of turbo-codes over quasi-static fading channels. First an upper bound is derived for the case of a single-input single-output channel. The result is then extended to the case of a serial concatenation of a turbo-code and a space-time block code. Unlike a simple extension of the union bound, the derived upper bounds are shown to converge for all signal-to-noise ratios. Additionally the closed form upper bounds obtained confirm analytically that, unlike over additive white Gaussian noise channels, turbo-code performance does not improve by increasing frame length over quasi-static fading channels.

authors

• Miller, Scott

published proceedings

• IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Bouzekri, H., & Miller, S. L.

citation count

• 25

complete list of authors

• Bouzekri, H||Miller, SL

publication date

• July 2003

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

keywords

• Fading Channels
• Performance Evaluation
• Turbo Codes

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.814705

start page

• 302

end page

• 304

volume

• 7

issue

• 7

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Flcomm.2003.814705