An improved turbo decoding scheme for impulsive channel

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel turbo decoding scheme for additive white class A noise (AWAN) channel. It compares the performance of turbo coded systems with Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (16-QAM) on AWAN channel with two different channel values-one computed as per additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel conditions and the other as per AWAN channel conditions. The results show that the use of appropriate channel value in turbo decoding helps to combat the impulsive noise more effectively. Also, the Bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed model for AWAN channel is compared with that of AWGN channel. It is observed that they exhibit comparable BER performance. �2010 IEEE.