A serially concatenated code is presented which exhibits a turbo cliff at 0.28 dB. The concatenation consists of an outer rate one-half repetition code and an inner rate one recursive convolutional code. The iterative decoding scheme was designed using the extrinsic information transfer chart (EXIT chart).
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Stephan ten Brink (2000) studied this question.