Islam, ShamaSadeghi, Parastoo2015-12-13December 19781467323932http://hdl.handle.net/1885/82891In this paper, a comparative analysis between joint and disjoint user decoding of the network and channel coded symbols in a multi-way relay channel is presented. The joint user decoding mechanism implements belief propagation algorithm to utilize the corKeywords: Belief propagation; Error propagation; Joint decoding; Multi-way relaying; Repeat accumulate codes; Communication systems; Electric relays; Fading channels; Signal processing; Decoding Belief propagation (BP); error propagation; joint decoding; multi-way relaying; repeat accumulate (RA) code201210.1109/ICSPCS.2012.65079582016-02-24