Versatile serial concatenated convolutional codes

摘要

An input digital signal is encoded by subjecting it to a first convolutional coding step followed by an interleaving step and a second convolutional coding step. The serial concatenated convolutional coded signal thus obtained is then subjected to modulation by means of a two-dimensional modulation scheme such as M-PSK or M-QAM. The corresponding decoding process involves an iterative decoding algorithm based on cascaded logarithmic soft-input soft-output processing steps.