Soft‐input soft‐output modules for the construction and distributed iterative decoding of code networks

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Soft‐input soft‐output building blocks (modules) are presented to construct and iteratively decode in a distributed fashioncode networks, a new çoncept that includes, and generalizes, various forms of concatenated coding schemes. Among the modules, a central role is played by the SISO module (and the underlying algorithm): it consists of a four‐port device performing a processing of the sequences of two input probability distributions by constraining them to the code trellis structure. The SISO and other soft‐input soft‐output modules are employed to construct and decode a variety of code networks, including “turbo codes” and serially concatenated codes with interleavers.

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