Hybrid early-termination methods and output selection procedure for iterative turbo decoders

   
   

Methods of early-termination and output selection for iterative decoders are disclosed. A hybrid early-termination method combines the output-comparison-based method with the parity-check-based method. The hybrid approach is far more superior in termination reliability in either of the two individual approaches, without their disadvantages. The hybrid termination method effectively and reliably terminates the iterative decoding process, cutting the majority of the computational load while eliminating the degradation in the bit error rate (BER) and frame-error-rate (FER) performance due to incorrectly terminated frames. An output selection procedure chooses the best possible decoded frame among those from all iterations if the iterative decoding process cannot be early-terminated during the decoding of a received frame and if the iterative decoder has reached the maximum number of iterations, thereby eliminating the iteration abnormality that is inherent in the iterative decoding approach, and improving the BER performance of the standard iterative decoders.

 
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