A survey of three-dimensional turbo codes and recent performance enhancements

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 3 Convergence thresholds of 3GGP2 3D TCs over Rayleigh fading channel and comparison with Gaussian channel

		$R = \frac{1}{3}$	$R = \frac{1}{2}$	$R = \frac{2}{3}$	$R = \frac{4}{5}$
Gaussian channel	Classical TC	−0.07 dB	0.60 dB	1.49 dB	2.44 dB
	3D TC ( $λ = \frac{1}{8}$ )	0.08 dB	0.73 dB	1.55 dB	2.45 dB
	Loss in convergence threshold	0.15 dB	0.13 dB	0.06 dB	0.01 dB
Rayleigh fading channel	Classical TC	1.83 dB	2.54 dB	2.45 dB	4.42 dB
	3D TC ( $λ = \frac{1}{8}$ )	2.08 dB	2.73 dB	2.55 dB	4.45 dB
	Loss in convergence threshold	0.25 dB	0.19 dB	0.10 dB	0.03 dB