Decoded Error Characteristics of Two-Pass APP Decoding

Akira SHIOZAKI  Yukinori KANAYA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E79-A    No.9    pp.1450-1452
Publication Date: 1996/09/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
error-correction,  soft-decision decoding,  threshold decoding,  APP decoding,  

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Summary: 
The performance of APP (a posteriori probability) decoding algorithm which is well known as a soft decision decoding algorithm for majority logic decodable codes is further improved by iterating the algorithm one or more times. This letter shows that there exists the optimal non-zero threshold value of the decision function that minimizes the decoded error rate in two-pass APP decoding though the optimal threshold value in one-pass APP decoding is zero.