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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2002
Sooyoung Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Woo-seok Yang, Daejeon, KR;
Ho-jin Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A method for iteratively decoding a block turbo code includes: receiving a signal frame formed of a product code obtained by serially concatenating block codes; forming a reliability array for signal demodulation and initializing extrinsic reliability information; performing a complexity-reduced soft decision output Viterbi decoding algorithm for all of the codewords existing on a current axis and calculating extrinsic reliability using soft decision output information output as a result of the decoding; checking whether an iterative decoding completion condition is satisfied, and outputting a decoded value and terminating an iterative decoding process when the condition is satisfied; and normalizing reliability information when the condition is not satisfied, performing reliability equalization, and repeating the decoding process for a next axis.