Woven Turbo Codes

A new code construction namely woven turbo codes, is presented , which is a variation of woven convolutional codes. Parallel encoders (turbo codes 2]) can be considered as a special case of woven turbo encoders, where only one outer and inner encoder is used. However, woven turbo codes with a larger number of outer codes yield higher minimum distances than turbo codes with random permutations.