Turbo product codes for LMDS

Author

Hewitt, Eric

Author_Institution

Adv. Hardware Archit. Inc., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

111

Abstract

Most prototype local multipoint distribution service (LMDS) systems utilize some form of Reed-Solomon, Viterbi, or concatenated forward error correction (FEC) solution. Turbo product codes (TPCs) give superior performance, and are well suited to solve the FEC challenges of LMDS. Performance increases in the bandwidth efficiency and signal to noise power can address LMDS issues such as rain fade, number of users per cell, and cell sizes. This paper compares TPC with traditional error correction schemes. FEC performance within system level constraints such as packet size and modulation type is analyzed

Keywords

broadband networks; cellular radio; data communication; decoding; fading channels; forward error correction; microwave links; modulation coding; packet radio networks; radio access networks; rain; telecommunication traffic; turbo codes; LMDS; Reed-Solomon code; Viterbi code; bandwidth efficiency; broadband access network; cell sizes; concatenated forward error correction code; data traffic; decoding complexity; error correction; local multipoint distribution service; microwave frequency region; modulation type; noise power; packet size; performance; rain fade; system level constraints; turbo product codes; Bandwidth; Concatenated codes; Error correction; Forward error correction; Performance analysis; Product codes; Prototypes; Rain fading; Reed-Solomon codes; Viterbi algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 1999. RAWCON 99. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5454-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.1999.810942

Filename

810942