16 research outputs found
LDPC Code Design for Noncoherent Physical Layer Network Coding
This work considers optimizing LDPC codes in the physical-layer network coded
two-way relay channel using noncoherent FSK modulation. The error-rate
performance of channel decoding at the relay node during the multiple-access
phase was improved through EXIT-based optimization of Tanner graph variable
node degree distributions. Codes drawn from the DVB-S2 and WiMAX standards were
used as a basis for design and performance comparison. The computational
complexity characteristics of the standard codes were preserved in the
optimized codes by maintaining the extended irregular repeat-accumulate (eIRA).
The relay receiver performance was optimized considering two modulation orders
M = {4, 8} using iterative decoding in which the decoder and demodulator refine
channel estimates by exchanging information. The code optimization procedure
yielded unique optimized codes for each case of modulation order and available
channel state information. Performance of the standard and optimized codes were
measured using Monte Carlo simulation in the flat Rayleigh fading channel, and
error rate improvements up to 1.2 dB are demonstrated depending on system
parameters.Comment: Six pages, submitted to 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Communication
Coded DS-CDMA Systems with Iterative Channel Estimation and no Pilot Symbols
In this paper, we describe direct-sequence code-division multiple-access
(DS-CDMA) systems with quadriphase-shift keying in which channel estimation,
coherent demodulation, and decoding are iteratively performed without the use
of any training or pilot symbols. An expectation-maximization
channel-estimation algorithm for the fading amplitude, phase, and the
interference power spectral density (PSD) due to the combined interference and
thermal noise is proposed for DS-CDMA systems with irregular repeat-accumulate
codes. After initial estimates of the fading amplitude, phase, and interference
PSD are obtained from the received symbols, subsequent values of these
parameters are iteratively updated by using the soft feedback from the channel
decoder. The updated estimates are combined with the received symbols and
iteratively passed to the decoder. The elimination of pilot symbols simplifies
the system design and allows either an enhanced information throughput, an
improved bit error rate, or greater spectral efficiency. The interference-PSD
estimation enables DS-CDMA systems to significantly suppress interference.Comment: To appear, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Adaptive iterative detection for expediting the convergence of a serially concatenated unary error correction decoder, turbo decoder and an iterative demodulator
Unary Error Correction (UEC) codes constitute a recently proposed Joint Source and Channel Code (JSCC) family, conceived for alphabets having an infinite cardinality, whilst out-performing previously used Separate Source and Channel Codes (SSCCs). UEC based schemes rely on an iterative decoding process, which involves three decoding blocks when concatenated with a turbo code. Owing to this, following the activation of one of the three blocks, the next block to be activated must be chosen from the other two decoding block options. Furthermore, the UEC decoder offers a number of decoding options, allowing its complexity and error correction capability to be dynamically adjusted. It has been shown that iterative decoding convergence can be expedited by activating the specific decoding option that offers the highest Mutual Information (MI) improvement to computational complexity ratio. This paper introduces an iterative demodulator, which is shown to improve the associated error correction performance, while reducing the overall iterative decoding complexity. The challenge is that the iterative demodulator has to forward its soft-information to the other two iterative decoding blocks, and hence the corresponding MI improvements cannot be compared on a like-for-like basis. Additionally, we also propose a method of eliminating the logarithmic calculations from the adaptive iterative decoding algorithm, hence further reducing its implementational complexity without impacting its error correcting performance
Constellation Shaping for Bit-Interleaved LDPC Coded APSK
An energy-efficient approach is presented for shaping a bit-interleaved
low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded amplitude phase-shift keying (APSK)
system. A subset of the interleaved bits output by a binary LDPC encoder are
passed through a nonlinear shaping encoder whose output is more likely to be a
zero than a one. The "shaping" bits are used to select from among a plurality
of subconstellations, while the unshaped bits are used to select the symbol
within the subconstellation. Because the shaping bits are biased, symbols from
lower-energy subconstellations are selected more frequently than those from
higher-energy subconstellations. An iterative decoder shares information among
the LDPC decoder, APSK demapper, and shaping decoder. Information rates are
computed for a discrete set of APSK ring radii and shaping bit probabilities,
and the optimal combination of these parameters is identified for the additive
white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. With the assistance of
extrinsic-information transfer (EXIT) charts, the degree distributions of the
LDPC code are optimized for use with the shaped APSK constellation. Simulation
results show that the combination of shaping, degree-distribution optimization,
and iterative decoding can achieve a gain in excess of 1 dB in AWGN at a rate
of 3 bits/symbol compared with a system that does not use shaping, uses an
unoptimized code from the DVB-S2 standard, and does not iterate between decoder
and demodulator.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communication