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The Effect of Block Interleaving in an LDPC-Turbo Concatenated Code

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Joo, Eon-Kyeong (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2006.04.10
  • Published : 2006.10.31
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Abstract

The effect of block interleaving in a low density parity check (LDPC)-turbo concatenated code is investigated in this letter. Soft decoding can be used in an LDPC code unlike the conventional Reed-Solomon (RS) code. Thus, an LDPC-turbo concatenated code can show better performance than the conventional RS-turbo concatenated code. Furthermore, the performance of an LDPC-turbo code can be improved by using a block interleaver between the LDPC and turbo code. The average number of iterations in LDPC decoding can also be reduced by a block interleaver.

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