145 research outputs found
Generalized Threshold Decoding of Convolutional Codes
It is shown that any rate l/b systematic convolutional code over GF(p) can be decoded up to its minimum distance with respect to the decoding constraint length by a one-step threshold decoder. It is further shown that this decoding method can be generalized in a natural way to allow “decoding” of a received sequence in its unquantized analog form
Feedback Communication Systems with Limitations on Incremental Redundancy
This paper explores feedback systems using incremental redundancy (IR) with
noiseless transmitter confirmation (NTC). For IR-NTC systems based on {\em
finite-length} codes (with blocklength ) and decoding attempts only at {\em
certain specified decoding times}, this paper presents the asymptotic expansion
achieved by random coding, provides rate-compatible sphere-packing (RCSP)
performance approximations, and presents simulation results of tail-biting
convolutional codes.
The information-theoretic analysis shows that values of relatively close
to the expected latency yield the same random-coding achievability expansion as
with . However, the penalty introduced in the expansion by limiting
decoding times is linear in the interval between decoding times. For binary
symmetric channels, the RCSP approximation provides an efficiently-computed
approximation of performance that shows excellent agreement with a family of
rate-compatible, tail-biting convolutional codes in the short-latency regime.
For the additive white Gaussian noise channel, bounded-distance decoding
simplifies the computation of the marginal RCSP approximation and produces
similar results as analysis based on maximum-likelihood decoding for latencies
greater than 200. The efficiency of the marginal RCSP approximation facilitates
optimization of the lengths of incremental transmissions when the number of
incremental transmissions is constrained to be small or the length of the
incremental transmissions is constrained to be uniform after the first
transmission. Finally, an RCSP-based decoding error trajectory is introduced
that provides target error rates for the design of rate-compatible code
families for use in feedback communication systems.Comment: 23 pages, 15 figure
Efficient coding schemes for low‐rate wireless personal area networks
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/166246/1/cmu2bf01608.pd
A high throughput hardware architecture for parallel recursive systematic convolutional encoders
During the last years, recursive systematic convolutional (RSC) encoders have found application in modern telecommunication systems to reduce the bit error rate (BER). In view of the necessity of increasing the throughput of such applications, several approaches using hardware implementations of RSC encoders were explored. In this paper, we propose a hardware intellectual property (IP) for high throughput RSC encoders. The IP core exploits a methodology based on the ABCD matrices model which permits to increase the number of inputs bits processed in parallel. Through an analysis of the proposed network topology and by exploiting data relative to the implementation on Zynq 7000 xc7z010clg400-1 field programmable gate array (FPGA), an estimation of the dependency of the input data rate and of the source occupation on the parallelism degree is performed. Such analysis, together with the BER curves, provides a description of the principal merit parameters of a RSC encoder
Channel estimation strategy for LPWA transmission at low SNR: application to Turbo-FSK
International audienceTurbo Frequency Shift Keying has been considered as a promising physical layer for low power wide-area network connectivity. Because of its constant envelope amplitude and the efficiency of its iterative receiver performance close to Shannon's limit can be achieved. However, results published so far in the literature for the waveform have assumed perfect channel estimation or Signal-to-noise (SNR) levels that are higher than the SNR levels considered for these applications. This paper analyzes a channel estimation strategy based on a specifically adapted pilot sequence. Simulations have been performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. Performance loss induced by imperfect channel estimation algorithms is estimated
CRC-Aided High-Rate Convolutional Codes With Short Blocklengths for List Decoding
Recently, rate-1/n zero-terminated (ZT) and tail-biting (TB) convolutional
codes (CCs) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided list decoding have been
shown to closely approach the random-coding union (RCU) bound for short
blocklengths. This paper designs CRC polynomials for rate- (n-1)/n ZT and TB
CCs with short blocklengths. This paper considers both standard rate-(n-1)/n CC
polynomials and rate- (n-1)/n designs resulting from puncturing a rate-1/2
code. The CRC polynomials are chosen to maximize the minimum distance d_min and
minimize the number of nearest neighbors A_(d_min) . For the standard
rate-(n-1)/n codes, utilization of the dual trellis proposed by Yamada et al.
lowers the complexity of CRC-aided serial list Viterbi decoding (SLVD).
CRC-aided SLVD of the TBCCs closely approaches the RCU bound at a blocklength
of 128. This paper compares the FER performance (gap to the RCU bound) and
complexity of the CRC-aided standard and punctured ZTCCs and TBCCs. This paper
also explores the complexity-performance trade-off for three TBCC decoders: a
single-trellis approach, a multi-trellis approach, and a modified
single-trellis approach with pre-processing using the wrap around Viterbi
algorithm.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2111.0792
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