Performance analysis of Raptor codes in Wi-Max systems over fading channel

Author

Palanisamy, P. ; Sreedhar, T.V.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Tiruchirappalli

fYear

2008

fDate

19-21 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In modern wireless communication systems, forward error correcting codes are employed for efficient transmission of data in noisy environments. Achieving a very less bit error rate (BER) has been the major task in the field of error control coding. The recently developed Raptor codes, which are a class of Fountain codes and the extension of LT codes, tend to give better performance than the low density parity check (LDPC) codes on burst error channels. In this paper, Raptor codes are used for forward error correction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) , which is a popular multicarrier modulation technique in Wi-Max systems and is currently being used in the IEEE 802.16e (Wi-Max) standard. Simulations are carried out and the bit error rate performance and burst-erasure correction capability of Raptor codes are compared with that of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes over Rayleigh fading channel.

Keywords

WiMax; error correction codes; fading channels; forward error correction; Fountain codes; LT codes; OFDM; Raptor codes; Rayleigh fading channel; Wi-Max; bit error rate; Bit error rate; Error correction; Error correction codes; Fading; Forward error correction; OFDM; Parity check codes; Performance analysis; Wireless communication; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2008 - 2008 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2408-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2409-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766717

Filename

4766717