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US 6,584,593 B1Granted
Concatenation of turbo-TCM with space-block coding
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsNambirajan Seshadri, Vahid Tarokh, Gerhard Bauch
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Abstract
Improved communication arrangement is realized with an arrangement where a turbo TCM code is concatenated with a space-time code as an outer code. The signal is decoded by employing a MAP decoder followed by a turbo decoder.
Claims6
An arrangement comprising:
- a plurality of receiving antennas;
- a MAP space-time decoder coupled to said plurality of antennas;
- and
- a turbo decoder responsive to signals developed by said MAP space-time decoder.
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An arrangement comprising:
- a plurality of receiving antennas;
- a MAP space-time decoder coupled to said plurality of antennas;
- and
- a turbo decoder responsive to signals developed by said MAP space-time decoder.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.