Thresholds of Braided Convolutional Codes on the AWGN Channel
In this paper, we perform a threshold analysis of braided convolutional codes on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The decoding thresholds are estimated by Monte-Carlo density evolution techniques and compared with approximate thresholds from an erasure channel prediction. The results show that, with spatial coupling, the predicted thresholds are very accurate and quickly approach
