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Turbo Coding with Iterative Decoding
Turbo codes, introduced by Berrou, Glavieux, and Thitimajshima in 1993, are a landmark in channel coding history. They achieve performance within 0.5 dB of the Shannon limit—the theoretical boundary for reliable communication—a feat previously thought impossible with practical complexity. Turbo codes use concatenated convolutional codes with an interleaver and iterative decoding via belief propagation. They were adopted in 3G (UMTS) and remain important in 4G/5G systems alongside LDPC codes.
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- Berrou, C., Glavieux, A., & Thitimajshima, P. (1993). Near Shannon limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo-codes. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 1064-1070. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.1993.397441 ↗
- Richardson, T. J., & Urbanke, R. L. (2002). The capacity of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing decoding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 47(2), 599-618. DOI: 10.1109/18.910577 ↗