Product Accumulate Codes: Properties and Performance

ITW 2001  
Cairn Australia  
Sept, 2001  
          K.R.Narayanan,  J.Li,   C.N.Georghades

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Abstract -- A new class of codes, named product accumulate codes, which are the concatenation of an outer product code and an inner rate-1 differential encoder (or accumulator) is proposed. We show that these codes can perform within a few tenths of a dB from the Shnnon limit for rates >= 1/2. For practical block lengths, these codes provide similar performance to turbo codes but with significantly lower decoding complexity.

Keywords -- product accumulate (PA) codes, turbo codes, serial concatenation, interleaving gain, union bound, Divsalar simple bound, density evolution, message-passing decoding