Iterative Threshold Decoding of Majority Logic Decodable Codes on Rayleigh Fading Channels

Iterative threshold decoding of product and parallel concatenated block codes based on one step majority logic decodable (OSMLD) codes has proven to perform remarkably well on AWGN channels. For these codes to be applicable in wireless environment, their performance on fading channels must be examined. The purpose of this work is to study the performance of our iterative threshold decoding algorithm on the Rayleigh fading channel. Results have shown that the slope of the bit-error rate (BER) curve is as steep as for the Gaussian channel. We also present a comparison between our results and those for convolutional turbo code in terms of BER performance.