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- Bocharova, Irina, et al.
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A Closed Form Expression for the Exact Bit Error Probability for Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes
- 2012
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. - 0018-9448. ; 58:7, s. 4635-4644
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1995, Best et al. published a formula for the exact bit error probability for Viterbi decoding of the rate R=1/2, memory m=1 (2-state) convolutional encoder with generator matrix G(D)=(1 1+D) when used to communicate over the binary symmetric channel. Their formula was later extended to the rate R=1/2, memory m=2 (4-state) convolutional encoder with generator matrix G(D)=(1+D^2 1+D+D^2) by Lentmaier et al. In this paper, a different approach to derive the exact bit error probability is described. A general recurrent matrix equation, connecting the average information weight at the current and previous states of a trellis section of the Viterbi decoder, is derived and solved. The general solution of this matrix equation yields a closed form expression for the exact bit error probability. As special cases, the expressions obtained by Best et al. for the 2-state encoder and by Lentmaier et al. for a 4-state encoder are obtained. The closed form expression derived in this paper is evaluated for various realizations of encoders, including rate R=1/2 and R=2/3 encoders, of as many as 16 states. Moreover, it is shown that it is straightforward to extend the approach to communication over the quantized additive white Gaussian noise channel.
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- Bocharova, Irina, et al.
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A Greedy Search for Improved QC LDPC Codes with Good Girth Profile and Degree Distribution
- 2012
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Ingår i: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2012. - 9781467325806 ; , s. 3083-3087
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Search algorithms for regular and irregular quasi-cyclic LDPC block codes with both good girth profile and good degree distribution are presented. New QC LDPC block codes of various code rates are obtained and their bit error rate performance is compared with that of the corresponding LDPC block codes defined in the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX standard of the same block length and code rate.
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- Bocharova, Irina, et al.
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Dual convolutional codes and the MacWilliams identities
- 2012
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Ingår i: Problems of Information Transmission. - 0032-9460. ; 48:1, s. 21-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A recursion for sequences of spectra of truncated as well as tailbitten convolutional codes and their duals is derived. The order of this recursion is shown to be less than or equal to the rank of the weight adjacency matrix (WAM) for the minimal encoder of the convolutional code. It is sufficient to know finitely many spectra of these terminated convolutional codes in order to obtain an infinitely long sequence of spectra of their duals.
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- Bocharova, Irina, et al.
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High-Rate QC LDPC Codes of Short and Moderate Length with Good Girth Profile
- 2012
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Ingår i: 7th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), 2012. - 9781457721144 ; , s. 150-154
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Irregular QC LDPC codes with parity-check matrices having different degree distributions are studied. A new algorithm for finding regular and irregular QC LDPC codes with a good girth profile as well as a good sliding-window girth is presented. As examples, simulation results for QC LDPC codes with good girth profile, rate R=4/5, and lengths about 1000, 2000, and 4000, constructed from base matrices with proper degree distributions are given. Their simulated BER and FER performances for belief propagation decoding are compared with the best previously known irregular QC LDPC codes of the same rate and length. It is shown that the constructed codes outperform the best previously known codes of same rate and lengths.
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- Bocharova, Irina, et al.
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Searching for voltage graph-based LDPC tailbiting codes with large girth
- 2012
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. - 0018-9448. ; 58:4, s. 2265-2279
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relation between parity-check matrices of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs supports searching for powerful LDPC block codes. Using the principle of tailbiting, compact representations of bipartite graphs based on convolutional codes can be found. Bounds on the girth and the minimum distance of LDPC block codes constructed in such a way are discussed. Algorithms for searching iteratively for LDPC block codes with large girth and for determining their minimum distance are presented. Constructions based on all-one matrices, Steiner Triple Systems, and QC block codes are introduced. Finally, new QC regular LDPC block codes with girth up to 24 are given.
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- Hug, Florian
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Codes on Graphs and More
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Modern communication systems strive to achieve reliable and efficient information transmission and storage with affordable complexity. Hence, efficient low-complexity channel codes providing low probabilities for erroneous receptions are needed. Interpreting codes as graphs and graphs as codes opens new perspectives for constructing such channel codes. Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are one of the most recent examples of codes defined on graphs, providing a better bit error probability than other block codes, given the same decoding complexity. After an introduction to coding theory, different graphical representations for channel codes are reviewed. Based on ideas from graph theory, new algorithms are introduced to iteratively search for LDPC block codes with large girth and to determine their minimum distance. In particular, new LDPC block codes of different rates and with girth up to 24 are presented. Woven convolutional codes are introduced as a generalization of graph-based codes and an asymptotic bound on their free distance, namely, the Costello lower bound, is proven. Moreover, promising examples of woven convolutional codes are given, including a rate 5/20 code with overall constraint length 67 and free distance 120. The remaining part of this dissertation focuses on basic properties of convolutional codes. First, a recurrent equation to determine a closed form expression of the exact decoding bit error probability for convolutional codes is presented. The obtained closed form expression is evaluated for various realizations of encoders, including rate 1/2 and 2/3 encoders, of as many as 16 states. Moreover, MacWilliams-type identities are revisited and a recursion for sequences of spectra of truncated as well as tailbitten convolutional codes and their duals is derived. Finally, the dissertation is concluded with exhaustive searches for convolutional codes of various rates with either optimum free distance or optimum distance profile, extending previously published results.
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