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Serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes

DC CAFC
  • US 7,916,781 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2008
  • Issued: 03/29/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of encoding a signal, comprising:

  • receiving a block of data in the signal to be encoded, the block of data including information bits;

    performing a first encoding operation on at least some of the information bits, the first encoding operation being a linear transform operation that generates L transformed bits; and

    performing a second encoding operation using the L transformed bits as an input, the second encoding operation including an accumulation operation in which the L transformed bits generated by the first encoding operation are accumulated, said second encoding operation producing at least a portion of a codeword, wherein L is two or more.

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