New research on unequal error protection (UEP) property of irregular LDPC codes

Author

Yang, Xiumei ; Yuan, Dongfeng ; Ma, Piming ; Jiang, Mingyan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Shandong Univ., China

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

363

Abstract

A new scheme is proposed about how to make use of the unequal error protection (UEP) property of irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. By means of the construction of a weight-increasing parity-check matrix and systematic encoding, the mapping between the important information data and the elite bits of an irregular LDPC code becomes traceable and tractable. Thus, the inherent UEP property of irregular LDPC codes is not the theoretical interest any more. The proposed scheme makes it practical to implement UEP in system applications. Taking an irregular LDPC code with code length 10000 and code rate one half as an example, simulation results are presented over AWGN channels. The validity of the proposed scheme is verified by simulation.

Keywords

AWGN channels; matrix algebra; parity check codes; AWGN channels; UEP; irregular LDPC codes; irregular low-density parity-check codes; systematic encoding; unequal error protection; weight-increasing parity-check matrix; AWGN channels; Decoding; Error correction codes; Fading; Information science; Linear matrix inequalities; Magnetic memory; Parity check codes; Sparse matrices; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286888

Filename

1286888