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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2007, Article ID 95474, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2007/95474 Research Article Efficient TTI for 3G Multimedia Applications Costas Chaikalis Areos 28, 13121 Athens, Greece Received 24 April 2007; Accepted 23 July 2007 Recommended by Stavros Kotsopoulos Time transmission interval (TTI) or outer block interleaving is an important task for the implementation of UMTS turbo coding in flat Rayleigh fading environment. An efficient TTI choice can save computational complexity. However, different multimedia scenarios are investigated using the maximum UMTS frame length, and simulation results are presented for the four possible outer block interleaver configurations in the case of flat Rayleigh fading channel. It is shown that different operating environments require an appropriate TTI in terms of bit error rate (BER) performance for the following data rates: 28.8 kbps, 64 kbps, 144 kbps, 384 kbps, and 2 Mbps. Copyright © 2007 Costas Chaikalis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION tation scenarios in Section 4. Finally, after an efficient TTI selection according to simulation results, we conclude in Section 5. Turbo coding [ 1] offers energy efficiencies close to the limits predicted by information theory with features that include parallel code concatenation, recursive convolutional encod- 2. RELATED WORK AND UMTS DATA STREAM ing, interleaving, an