An Improved Approximate Formula for Word Error Rate of Turbo-like Codes
Dai Li-yun①② Yang Hong-wen② Rao Wen-yuan①
①(School of Software and Communication Engineering, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China) ②(School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China)
Abstract：For Turbo-like codes, an improved approximate formula of Word Error Rate (WER) is proposed. The formula is simply expressed in the form of the Gaussian Q function, which includes the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), the mathematical expectation and the variance of squared radii in decision region, etc. Simulation results show that the error between the proposed formula and Monte Carlo simulation is less than 0.05 dB when the WER is higher than the error floor over Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels. Moreover, since the last two parameters connected with the radius of decision region are obtained by simulation, their impacts on the accuracy of the proposed formula are studied. It is shown that the deviation of SNR between the proposed formula and Monte Carlo simulation on the same WER is less than 0.05 dB by using only a few hundreds of radii samples.
戴利云, 杨鸿文, 尧文元. 改进的Turbo类编码的近似码字错误率公式[J]. 电子与信息学报, 2012, 34(5): 1191-1195.
Dai Li-Yun, Yang Hong-Wen, Yao Wen-Yuan. An Improved Approximate Formula for Word Error Rate of Turbo-like Codes. , 2012, 34(5): 1191-1195.
2012, Vol. 34 
