On the performance of turbo codes over the binary erasure channel

• Published in: IEEE communications letters Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 67 - 69
• Main Authors: Lee, J.W., Urbanke, R., Blahut, R.E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.01.2007; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithm design and analysis; Applied sciences; Blocking; Channels; Coding, codes; Communication channels; Decoding; Estimates; Exact sciences and technology; Information analysis; Information, signal and communications theory; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Mutual information; Probability; Signal and communications theory; Statistics; Telecommunications and information theory; Transfer functions; Turbo codes; Waterfalls; Performance evaluation; Binary channel; Turbo codes; Turbo code; binary erasure channel; block erasure probability; Binary code; Iterative decoding
• ISSN: 1089-7798; 1558-2558
• DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.061206

In this letter, we propose an estimate for the block erasure probability of turbo codes with an iterative decoding in a waterfall region, which is nonlinearly scaled by the information blocklength. This estimate can be used to predict efficiently the block erasure probability of the finite-length turbo codes over a binary erasure channel