A new parity-check stopping criterion for turbo decoding

作者:Wu Zhanji*; Peng Mugen; Wang Wenbo
来源:IEEE Communications Letters, 2008, 12(4): 304-306.
DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2008.072068

摘要

This paper presents a simple and effective stopping criterion for Turbo decoding. This criterion is based on parity-check scheme, which is totally different from the cross-entropy (CE) based criteria. Simulations show that the proposed scheme achieves about the same performance in terms of bit-error-rate (BER) and saves more iterations, as compared with other well known CE-based stopping criteria. Furthermore, this paritycheck scheme unveils the inner oneness of LDPC codes and turbo c odes in the perspective of the decoding convergence, which is an original theoretical discovery.