Glossary

16QAM

16-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

1D

One-Dimensional

3G

Third-Generation (network)

 

ACF

Autocorrelation Function

ACS

Add, Compare and Select

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

ALU

Arithmetic and Logic Unit

APP

A Posteriori Probability

AR

Autoregressive

ARVLC

Asymmetric Reversible Variable-Length Coding

AWGN

Additive White Gaussian Noise

 

B-F

Buttigieg-Farrell

BB

Bit-Based

BCD

Binary-Coded Decimal

BCH

Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem

BCJR

Bahl–Cocke–Jelinek–Raviv

BEC

Binary Erasure Channel

BER

Bit Error Ratio

BICM

Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

BiCM-ID

Bit-interleaved Coded Modulation using Iterative Decoding

BLAST

Bell Labs LAyered Space-Time architecture

bpc

bits per channel use

BPSK

Binary Phase Shift Keying

BSC

Binary Symmetric Channel

BTC

Block Turbo Code

 

CABAC

Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding

CAVLC

Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding

CC

Convolutional Coding

CDF

Cumulative Density Function

CDMA

Code-Division Multiple Access

CIR

Channel Impulse Response

COVQ

Channel-Optimized Vector Quantization

CSI

Channel State Information

 

DCMC

Discrete-input Continuous-output Modulated Channel

DCT

Discrete Cosine Transform

DMS

Discrete Memoryless Source

DRI

Decoder Reliability Information

 

EWVLC

Even Weight Variable Length Coding

EXIT

EXtrinsic Information Transfer

 

FD

Frame Difference

FDM

Free Distance Metric

FDMA

Frequency Division Multiple Access

FEC

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