Reconfigurable turbo codes for wireless data communications

Due to the near-optimum performance of turbo codes, studies are undertaken in order to incorporate these codes into the new standards of wireless communications. Examples here are the Universal Mobile Communications System (UMTS) and the CCSDS standard for telemetry systems. This paper reviews the performance of the proposed turbo code configurations of the CCSDS telemetry channel coding standard, and discusses how this may be implemented in reconfigurable hardware.