The Performance Estimation of Turbo Internal Interleaver Using Weight Distribution of Codewords

In this paper, we suggest more precise performance analysis method of turbo interleavers based on two criteria; performance bounds like Union Bound and weight frequency of codewords. In order to present our new method, we employ block pseudo random, and so-called prime interleavers in compliance of 3GPP standard, respectively. We also applied this method to S-random interleavers that have different window size, S. 3GPP complied turbo encoder, decoder, and AWGN channel are implemented by using MATLAB for our performance analysis. According to our analysis, both criteria should be taken into account coincidently to predict the performance of newly designed interleavers.