Enhanced space-time block coded systems by concatenating turbo product codes

Author

Du, Yinggang ; Chan, Kam Tai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

388

Lastpage

390

Abstract

The BER performance of a turbo product code (TPC) based space-time block coding (STBC) wireless system has been investigated. With the proposed system, both the good error correcting capability of TPC and the concurrent large diversity gain characteristic of STBC can be achieved. The BER upper bound has been derived taking BPSK modulation as an example. The simulation results show that the proposed system with the concatenated codes outperforms the one with only TPC or STBC and other reported schemes that concatenate STBC with convolutional Turbo codes or trellis codes.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; concatenated codes; diversity reception; error correction codes; error statistics; product codes; radiocommunication; space-time codes; turbo codes; BER performance; BPSK modulation; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; diversity gain characteristic; enhanced space-time block coded system; error correcting capability; soft detection; turbo product code concatenating; wireless system; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Block codes; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Diversity methods; Error correction; Product codes; Turbo codes; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2004.831327

Filename

1306430