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TY - GEN
T1 - Variable-Rate Capacity-Approaching LDPC Codes for HF Communications
AU - Pandya, Nishit
AU - Honary, Bahram
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - The HF propagation channel involves several interrelated phenomena that results in a highly variable medium, which poses a challenge in designing and implementing effective high speed digital communications systems for HF band. The reliability of HF communication is affected by time-varying propagation conditions of HF channel that demands requirement for coding schemes with adaptive protection capabilities, to combat the ever-changing channel conditions and thus improve the reliability and performance of the channel. The novel idea introduced in this paper, proposes a variable forward error correction scheme using capacity-approaching 'low density parity check' codes that enables the switching between LDPC codes of constant length but variable rates (1/4, 1/2, & 9/10) to provide variable-error protection based on the channel condition at any given time. These codes have been simulated over a Rayleigh fading channel and their capacity approaching performance using the sum-product decoding algorithm is shown.
AB - The HF propagation channel involves several interrelated phenomena that results in a highly variable medium, which poses a challenge in designing and implementing effective high speed digital communications systems for HF band. The reliability of HF communication is affected by time-varying propagation conditions of HF channel that demands requirement for coding schemes with adaptive protection capabilities, to combat the ever-changing channel conditions and thus improve the reliability and performance of the channel. The novel idea introduced in this paper, proposes a variable forward error correction scheme using capacity-approaching 'low density parity check' codes that enables the switching between LDPC codes of constant length but variable rates (1/4, 1/2, & 9/10) to provide variable-error protection based on the channel condition at any given time. These codes have been simulated over a Rayleigh fading channel and their capacity approaching performance using the sum-product decoding algorithm is shown.
U2 - 10.1049/cp:20060250
DO - 10.1049/cp:20060250
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 0863416594
SP - 123
EP - 127
BT - The 10th Institution of Engineering and Technology International Conference on Ionospheric Radio Systems & Techniques (IRST 2006)
PB - IET Press
CY - London, UK
ER -