Chapter 2 The Serial Concatenation of Rate-1 Codes Through Uniform Interleavers

Since the introduction of turbo codes by Berrou, Glavieux, and Thitimajshima [3], iterative decoding has made it practical to consider a myriad of different concatenated codes, and the use of “random ” interleavers and recursive convolutional encoders has provided a good starting point for the design of new code structures. Many of these concatenated code structure