Variable-rate turbo bit-interleaved coded modulation

Abstract

This paper studies the performance of variable-rate turbo bit-interleaved coded modulation (Turbo-BICM) with random puncturing. A union-Bhattacharyya rate threshold for the variable-rate Turbo-BICM is derived. A closed form approximation of this rate threshold is determined for an AWGN channel and shown to predict the Turbo-BICM iterative decoding performance very well.