Chatzigeorgiou, Ioannis and Rodrigues, Miguel R. D. and Wassell, Ian J. and Carrasco, Rolando (2007) A union bound approximation for rapid performance evaluation of punctured turbo codes. In: 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems :. IEEE, NEW YORK, pp. 474-479. ISBN 978-1-4244-1036-1
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In this paper, we present a simple technique to approximate the performance union bound of a punctured turbo code. The bound approximation exploits only those terms of the transfer function that have a major impact on the overall performance. We revisit the structure of the constituent convolutional encoder and we develop a rapid method to calculate the most significant terms of the transfer function of a turbo encoder. We demonstrate that, for a large interleaver size, this approximation is very accurate. Furthermore, we apply our proposed method to a family of punctured turbo codes, which we call pseudo-randomly punctured codes. We conclude by emphasizing the benefits of our approach compared to those employed previously. We also highlight the advantages of pseudo-random puncturing over other puncturing schemes.