A Study of UMTS Turbo Codes Across Space Time Spreading Channel with the Case of m = 1 and m = 2

Authors

Ibrahim S. Raad, University of Wollongong
Peter Vial, University of WollongongFollow
Tadeusz A. Wysocki, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

12-2004

Comments

Published in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP'2004), Adelaide, Australia (December 20-22, 2004) (5 p.). Copyright 2004, IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

The study presented in this paper is that of Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) Turbo Codes across Space Time Spreading channel with one transmitter antenna, one receiver (m = 1) and two transmitter antennas and one receiver (m = 2) to see to what extent the bit error rate (BER) can be improved. Using the Max-log decoding algorithm and 12 iterations it is shown in the simulation results that an extra 5 dB is achievable.