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Communications and Network, 2013, 5, 9-15 /10.4236/cn.2013.51002 Published Online February 2013 (/journal/cn) Fast Converging Generalized Turbo Decoding Scheme with Enhanced Throughput for Mobile Radio Ashok Kumar Shankhwar , Sachin Sharma , Rajeev Tripathi , Arun Prakash , Ashutosh Singh 1 1 2 2 1 1 Electronics Engineering Department, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India 2 Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India Email: sak_neeraj@, sachinsharma.hbtik@, rt@mnnit.ac.in Received September 14, 2012; revised October 16, 2012; accepted November 2, 2012 ABSTRACT The use of turbo codes enhances the data transmission efficiency and optimizes the performance of a communication system over wireless fading channels. In this paper, we present a brief overview of the various components of the turbo coding scheme, analyze the complexities of the most popular turbo decoding algorithms, and discuss the various im- plementation methods of the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm. The paper considers the well-known log-MAP decoding algorithm by a linear approximation of the correction function used by the max* operator. We propose a gen- eralized decoding scheme that optimizes the existing MAP algorithm for faster convergence and better throughput on the basis of varying channel conditions. The proposed scheme of decoding reduces complexity and enhances the throughput with only a negligible loss in BER performance. Keywords: Log-MAP Decoding; Mobile Radio; Turbo Decoder; UMTS; Wireless 1. Introduction algorithm is selected, such as max-log-MAP. And, for poor channel conditions, the algorithm offering best BER performance but slow converging and complex algorithm is consi