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On the Asymptotic Performance of Bit-Wise Decoders for Coded Modulation
Two decoder structures for coded modulation over the Gaussian and flat fading
channels are studied: the maximum likelihood symbol-wise decoder, and the
(suboptimal) bit-wise decoder based on the bit-interleaved coded modulation
paradigm. We consider a 16-ary quadrature amplitude constellation labeled by a
Gray labeling. It is shown that the asymptotic loss in terms of pairwise error
probability, for any two codewords caused by the bit-wise decoder, is bounded
by 1.25 dB. The analysis also shows that for the Gaussian channel the
asymptotic loss is zero for a wide range of linear codes, including all
rate-1/2 convolutional codes
Minimum Pseudoweight Analysis of 3-Dimensional Turbo Codes
In this work, we consider pseudocodewords of (relaxed) linear programming
(LP) decoding of 3-dimensional turbo codes (3D-TCs). We present a relaxed LP
decoder for 3D-TCs, adapting the relaxed LP decoder for conventional turbo
codes proposed by Feldman in his thesis. We show that the 3D-TC polytope is
proper and -symmetric, and make a connection to finite graph covers of the
3D-TC factor graph. This connection is used to show that the support set of any
pseudocodeword is a stopping set of iterative decoding of 3D-TCs using maximum
a posteriori constituent decoders on the binary erasure channel. Furthermore,
we compute ensemble-average pseudoweight enumerators of 3D-TCs and perform a
finite-length minimum pseudoweight analysis for small cover degrees. Also, an
explicit description of the fundamental cone of the 3D-TC polytope is given.
Finally, we present an extensive numerical study of small-to-medium block
length 3D-TCs, which shows that 1) typically (i.e., in most cases) when the
minimum distance and/or the stopping distance is
high, the minimum pseudoweight (on the additive white Gaussian noise channel)
is strictly smaller than both the and the , and 2)
the minimum pseudoweight grows with the block length, at least for
small-to-medium block lengths.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Communication
Further Results on Quadratic Permutation Polynomial-Based Interleavers for Turbo Codes
An interleaver is a critical component for the channel coding performance of
turbo codes. Algebraic constructions are of particular interest because they
admit analytical designs and simple, practical hardware implementation. Also,
the recently proposed quadratic permutation polynomial (QPP) based interleavers
by Sun and Takeshita (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Jan. 2005) provide excellent
performance for short-to-medium block lengths, and have been selected for the
3GPP LTE standard. In this work, we derive some upper bounds on the best
achievable minimum distance dmin of QPP-based conventional binary turbo codes
(with tailbiting termination, or dual termination when the interleaver length N
is sufficiently large) that are tight for larger block sizes. In particular, we
show that the minimum distance is at most 2(2^{\nu +1}+9), independent of the
interleaver length, when the QPP has a QPP inverse, where {\nu} is the degree
of the primitive feedback and monic feedforward polynomials. However, allowing
the QPP to have a larger degree inverse may give strictly larger minimum
distances (and lower multiplicities). In particular, we provide several QPPs
with an inverse degree of at least three for some of the 3GPP LTE interleaver
lengths giving a dmin with the 3GPP LTE constituent encoders which is strictly
larger than 50. For instance, we have found a QPP for N=6016 which gives an
estimated dmin of 57. Furthermore, we provide the exact minimum distance and
the corresponding multiplicity for all 3GPP LTE turbo codes (with dual
termination) which shows that the best minimum distance is 51. Finally, we
compute the best achievable minimum distance with QPP interleavers for all 3GPP
LTE interleaver lengths N <= 4096, and compare the minimum distance with the
one we get when using the 3GPP LTE polynomials.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Trans. Inf. Theor
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