The series of soft values of consecutive iterations of turbo decoding are used for convergence acceleration with the Epsilon algorithm. It is shown that a certain improvement of the bit error rate (BER) can be obtained compared to the standard turbo decoding. Turbo codes for third generation communication systems are used for the computational experiments. BER results in case of correlated fading are presented as an illustration of the performance of the convergence acceleration approach.
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