Joint Iterative Detection/Decoding Scheme for Discrete Two-Dimensional Interference Channels

In this paper, we propose a joint iterative detection/decoding scheme for a generalized discrete two-dimensional (2D) interference channel with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A reduced-state form of the channel detector is also proposed to further reduce the system complexity. To achieve better performance, iterations are introduced between the two constituent channel detectors and among the two constituent detectors with the LDPC decoder. The computational complexity and performance of different iteration schemes are analyzed. Simulation results show that the proposed detection scheme can mitigate the 2D interference effectively and the LDPC codes can be well integrated to the 2D iterative detector to further improve the system performance significantly.