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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Communications Volume 2007, Article ID 53517, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2007/53517 Research Letter Simplified LLRs for the Decoding of Single Parity Check Turbo Product Codes Transmitted Using 16QAM Maher Arar, Claude D’Amours, and Abbas Yongacoglu School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 Correspondence should be addressed to Maher Arar, marar051@uottawa.ca Received 20 August 2007; Accepted 1 October 2007 Recommended by Guosen Yue Iterative soft-decision decoding algorithms require channel log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) which, when using 16QAM modula- tion, require intensive computations to be obtained. Therefore, we derive four simple approximate LLR expressions. When using the maximum a posteriori probability algorithm for decoding single parity check turbo product codes (SPC/TPCs), these LLRs can be simplified even further. We show through computer simulations that the bit-error-rate performance of (8, 7)2 and (8, 7)3 SPC/TPCs, transmitted using 16QAM and decoded using the maximum a posteriori algorithm with our simplified LLRs, is nearly identical to the one achieved by using the exact LLRs. Copyright © 2007 Maher Arar et al. 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 operations per 16QAM symbol. Simulation results show that, while being very simple, the proposed method’s BER perfor- By using soft-input/soft-output (SISO) maximum a posteri- mance