LUT BASED ARCHITECTURE AND BCJR ALGORITHM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT AND HIGH SPEED TURBO DECODING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Turbo codes have recently been considered for energy-constrained wireless communication applications, since they facilitate a low
transmission energy consumption. However, in order to reduce the overall energy consumption, Look-Up- Table-Log-BCJR (LUTLog-BCJR)
architectures having low processing energy consumption are required. In this paper, we decompose the LUT-Log-BCJR
architecture into its most fundamental Add Compare Select (ACS) operations and perform them using a novel low-complexity ACS
unit. We demonstrate that our architecture employs an order of magnitude fewer gates than the most recent LUT-Log-BCJR
architectures, facilitating a 71% energy consumption reduction. Compared to state-of-the-art Maximum Logarithmic Bahl-CockeJelinek-Raviv
(Max-Log-BCJR) implementations, our approach facilitates a 10% reduction in the overall energy consumption at
ranges above 58 m.