Increase efficiency of multilevel multithreshold decoder for self-orthogonal codes

This paper considers multilevel multithreshold decoder for a self-orthogonal codes. Simulation results for an AWGN channel are reported. New modifications of this decoder provided coding gain improving by a few tenths of dB due to better using of the bits soft information are offered. Recommendations to choose the best algorithms of constituting blocks of the multilevel multithreshold decoder and its parameters are given.