Improved interleaver design for turbo coded intersymbol interference channels

In this paper, we consider an improved S-random interleaver design for the serial concatenation of a high rate punctured convolutional code and a preceded intersymbol interference (ISI) channel separated by an interleaver. We first identify the error patterns that dominate the performance in the floor region. We then modify the S-random interleaver design such that the dominant weight-2 error patterns are eliminated. Simulation results indicate that a performance improvement of about 0.4 dB at a probability of error of about 10-6 is possible. More investigation, however, is still required in order to understand the effect of the new design on the distance spectrum corresponding to higher weight patterns.

Improved interleaver design for turbo coded intersymbol interference channels Conference Paper