The statistical mechanics of turbo codes
Abstract
The "turbo codes", recently proposed by Berrou et. al. are written as a disordered spin Hamiltonian. It is shown that there is a threshold Theta such that for signal to noise ratios v2 / w2 > Theta, the error probability per bit vanishes in the thermodynamic limit, i.e. the limit of infinitly long sequences. The value of the threshold has been computed for two particular turbo codes. It is found that it depends on the code. These results are compared with numerical simulations.
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