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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2006
Robert David Bresalier, New Providence, NJ (US);
Francis Dominique, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Emad N. Farag, Flanders, NJ (US);
Hongwei Kong, Denville, NJ (US);
Robert David Bresalier, New Providence, NJ (US);
Francis Dominique, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Emad N. Farag, Flanders, NJ (US);
Hongwei Kong, Denville, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
In a multiple access environment, to improve decoding efficiency for small code blocks by a constituent decoder, multiple code blocks may be concatenated to form a single larger code block. Example embodiments of the present invention concatenate code blocks for turbo codes I and II. Example embodiments of the present invention may also concatenate code blocks for convolutional code. Example embodiments of the present invention also disclose a system to concatenate the code blocks.