Improved turbo-equalization, with application to bit interleaved modulations

Turbo-equalization has been proposed as a powerful means for recovering unknown symbols sent through frequency selective channels. Most algorithms proposed so far were designed in the framework of a binary symbol alphabet, and then extended to modulations with a larger number of states. Moreover symbol interleaving was mainly considered. This paper improves existing algorithms in that our algorithm (i) exhibits better performance when used with...