The document discusses turbo codes, which are a type of error correction code used in communication systems. Turbo codes work by concatenating two or more simple convolutional codes with an interleaver between them. This structure allows for iterative decoding that can achieve performance close to the theoretical maximum. The key aspects covered are the turbo code concepts, log likelihood algebra used in decoding, the purpose and types of interleaving, and how recursive systematic convolutional codes are used as the component codes of a turbo code.