On the design of double serially concatenated codes with an outer repetition code

Francesca Vatta, Jörg Kliewer, Christian Koller, Daniel J. Costello, Kamil Sh Zigangirov

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent discovery that repeat-accumulate-accumulate (RAA) codes with a repetition factor of three or larger are asymptotically good, we focus on the design of double-serially concatenated codes (DSCCs) with an outer repetition code. The main design goal is to obtain rate-1/2 codes with minimum distance approaching the Gilbert-Varshamov bound (GVB), while still maintaining a good convergence threshold with iterative decoding. To this end, the "accumulate" codes, used as middle and inner codes in RAA codes, are replaced with higher memory, rate-1 convolutional codes. We find that distance growth rates close to the GVB can be achieved in a DSCC with code memories as small as two or three. EXIT charts are used to design DSCCs with good convergence thresholds and distance growth properties. Finally, these codes are compared to the RAAA code and a punctured RAA code with a repetition factor of three, both of which exhibit linear distance growth with block length.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9783800730773
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008 - Ulm, Germany
Duration: Jan 14 2008Jan 16 2008

Publication series

Name7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008

Other

Other7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityUlm
Period1/14/081/16/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing

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