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Little attention has been devoted in the literature to turbo-codes with nonidentical component codes. However, in order to optimize the performance of parallel concatenated schemes with respect to both the so called "error-floor" and the "waterfall" regions, the idea has certain advantages.
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Takeshita et al. (1999) studied this question.
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