Turbo codes at West Virginia University
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Free Software for Simulating Turbo Codes
The Coded Modulation Library (CML) is a matlab library specifically designed for simulating advanced error correction codes, such as turbo codes and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A variety of modulation formats and channel models are available. Support for several standardized codes is incorporated into the library, including the turbo codes used by the UMTS, cdma2000, LTE, DVB-RCS, WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), and CCSDS standards, as well as the LDPC codes used by DVB-S2 and 802.16e. The code is licensed under the lesser-GPL, so it is indeed “free”. We make extensive use of c-mex functions, so that it runs efficiently.
To download CML, click here.
| Tutorials, Book Chapters, Papers, Tutorials and a Dissertation on Turbo Codes. |
| M.C. Valenti, “Channel coding for IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX,” a tutorial presented at International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Dresden, Germany), June 18, 2009. |
| M.C. Valenti, S. Cheng, and R. Iyer Seshadri, “Turbo and LDPC codes for digital video broadcasting,” Chapter 12 of Turbo Code Applications: A Journey from a Paper to Realization, Springer, 2005. |
| M.C. Valenti and J. Sun, “Turbo codes,” Chapter 12 of in Handbook of RF and Wireless Technologies, Edited by F. Dowla Editor, Newnes Press, 2004, pp. 375-399. |
| M.C. Valenti and J. Sun, “The UMTS turbo code and an efficient decoder implementation suitable for software defined radios,” International Journal on Wireless Information Networks, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 203-216, Oct. 2001. |
| M.C. Valenti, “Turbo codes and iterative processing,” in Proc. IEEE New Zealand Wireless Commun. Symp., (Auckland, New Zealand), Nov. 1998. |
| M.C. Valenti, “Iterative detection and decoding for wireless communications,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Bradley Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Eng., Virginia Tech, July 1999. |