In this paper we address the calculation of performance characteristics of turbo-codes. The aim is to provide a method that has a low complexity and that enables the analysis of a wide variety of turbo-coded schemes, with in mind the possibility of using it as an optimization criterion in an adaptive system. The proposed method enables the determination of the error-free decoding threshold and of the number of iterations to achieve error-free decoding. Its complexity is far lower than that of existing methods and it offers an accuracy close to that of EXIT charts.
Sneessens, H. H., Jaspar, X., Herzet, C., & Vandendorpe, L. (2008). Predictions on turbo-decoding performance for adaptive channel coding. 2007 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC ’07), 1923-1927. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/229755