TY - GEN
T1 - On the design of double serially concatenated codes with an outer repetition code
AU - Vatta, Francesca
AU - Kliewer, Jörg
AU - Koller, Christian
AU - Costello, Daniel J.
AU - Zigangirov, Kamil Sh
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85006754013
T3 - 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008
BT - 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, SCC 2008
Y2 - 14 January 2008 through 16 January 2008
ER -