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Lattice codes are elegant and powerful structures that not only can achieve the capacity of the AWGN channel but are also a key ingredient to many multiterminal schemes that exploit linearity properties. However, constructing lattice codes…
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Turbo code is a great achievement in the field of communication system. It can be created by connecting a turbo encoder and a decoder serially. A Turbo encoder is build with parallel concatenation of two simple convolutional codes. By…
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