Gaussian (BI-AWGN) channels for a rate of 0.5.
For the codes over GF(24), GF(25) and GF(26), the values of
topt are 2.3, 2.2 and 2.1 respectively. The values of tc for the
rate-0.6 punctured codes over GF(24), GF(25) and GF(26) are
approximately 2.5, 2.38 and 2.2 respectively. It can be seen that