Low Complexity Hybrid Turbo Codes

Author

Bhise, A.

Author_Institution

K J Somaiya Inst. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Mumbai

fYear

2008

fDate

March 31 2008-April 3 2008

Firstpage

1050

Lastpage

1055

Abstract

The key implementation issue for most of the powerful error correcting codes is overall decoding complexity. Compared with 8-state turbo codes, proposed code can achieve nearly the same performance with significantly reduced decoding complexity. The proposed code is modified turbo code which uses parallel concatenation of component codes. First few component codes are series combination of zigzag codes and convolutional codes. Since multiple codes are used in component codes, proposed code is a hybrid code. Code rate of the low complexity hybrid turbo code (LCHTC) can be adjusted by changing the array size of zigzag codes and by puncturing the parity bits of convolutional code. Performance analysis of LCHTC shows that optimum number of constituent codes and of convolutional codes leads to BER of 10^-5 at signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 1.6dB.

Keywords

convolutional codes; error correction codes; turbo codes; 8-state turbo code; component code; convolutional code; decoding complexity; error correcting code; low complexity hybrid turbo codes; signal-to-noise ratio; zigzag code; AWGN; Bit error rate; Code standards; Communications Society; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Iterative decoding; Power engineering and energy; Signal to noise ratio; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. WCNC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1997-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2008.190

Filename

4489221