Performance comparisons of improved regular repeat accumulate (RA)‎ and irregular repeat accumulate (IRA)‎ turbo decoding

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In this paper, different techniques are used to improve the turbo decoding of regular repeat accumulate (RA) and irregular repeat accumulate (IRA) codes.

The adaptive scaling of a-posteriori information produced by Soft-output Viterbi decoder (SOVA) is proposed.

The encoded pilots are another scheme that applied for short length RA codes.

This work also suggests a simple and a fast method to generate a random interleaver having a free 4 cycle Tanner graph.

Progressive edge growth algorithm (PEG) is also studied and simulated to create the Tanner graphs which have a great girth.