encoders and interleavers. The parallel concatenation known as" turbo code" has been
shown to yield remarkable coding gains close to theoretical limits, yet admitting a relatively
simple iterative decoding technique. The recently proposed serial concatenation of
interleaved codes may offer superior performance to that of turbo codes. In both coding
schemes, the core of the iterative decoding structure is a soft-input soft-output (SISO) a …