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Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2006
Applicants:

Yuei Wu Blankenship, Kildeer, IL (US);

T. Keith Blankenship, Kildeer, IL (US);

Brian K. Classon, Palatine, IL (US);

Ajit Nimbalker, Schaumburg, IL (US);

Inventors:

Yuei Wu Blankenship, Kildeer, IL (US);

T. Keith Blankenship, Kildeer, IL (US);

Brian K. Classon, Palatine, IL (US);

Ajit Nimbalker, Schaumburg, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC, Libertyville, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for turbo coding and decoding is provided herein. During operation, a concatenated transport block (CTB) of length X is received and a forward error correction (FEC) block size Kis determined from a group of available non-contiguous FEC block sizes between Kand K, and wherein K≦K<Kand wherein Kis additionally based on X. The concatenated transport block of length X is segmented into C segments each of size substantially equal K. An FEC codeword for each of the C segments is determined using FEC block size K; and the C FEC codewords are transmitted over the channel.


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