Mark Flanagan, DSP Research Group, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 
University College dublin

Title: "Factor Graph Theory: A New Tool for Communication Receiver Design"

This Seminar is sponsored by the IEEE UKRI Communications and Control Joint Chapter

Abstract:

The theory of factor graphs provides a powerful and elegant unification of 
many algorithms in communications and signal processing. Prominent among 
these are the decoding algorithms for turbo and LDPC codes, which are 
near-Shannon-capacity achieving codes. This talk will introduce the factor 
graph framework, and attempt to show how it may be used in the design of 
communication receivers. Turbo decoding, LDPC decoding and turbo 
equalization will be examined as illustrative special cases.