• DocumentCode
    2128478
  • Title

    When is a Message Decodable Over Fading Channels?

  • Author

    Castura, Jeff ; Mao, Yongyi

  • Author_Institution
    SITE, Ottawa Univ., Ont.
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    62
  • Abstract
    We investigate the distribution of decoding times for frequency-flat fading channels when the information block size is fixed to a finite value a priori but codeword length is not. We characterize the distribution of decoding times for block-fading channels in a computable form and demonstrate that the resulting distribution is discontinuous at block boundaries. We make suggestions regarding coding strategies based on these distributions and discuss the benefits of rateless coding in this setting
  • Keywords
    block codes; channel coding; decoding; fading channels; block-fading channel; frequency-flat fading channel; message decoding; rateless coding; Block codes; Decoding; Delay; Distributed computing; Fading; Feedback; Frequency; Redundancy; Throughput; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications, 2006 23rd Biennial Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Kigston, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9528-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BSC.2006.1644570
  • Filename
    1644570