Advanced error correcting coding techniques and iterative decoding

Summary form only given. This paper presents in a tutorial from a survey of the recent, powerful error correcting coding techniques know as "turbo-like" codes. Based on the concatenation of two convolutional encoders and an interleaver, and endowed with a relatively simple iterative decoding algorithm, these codes have revolutionized the coding field, showing that performance very close to the Shannon theoretical capacity limits with limited hardware complexity. The presentation focuses on the analysis, design, and applications of this important class of codes.