Repeat-punctured superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes on AWGN and flat Rayleigh fading channels

Authors

  • Narushan Pillay University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • HongJun Xu University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Fambirai Takawira University of KwaZulu-Natal

Keywords:

puncturing, repetition, superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes, turbo codes, Walsh-Hadamard

Abstract

Repeat-punctured turbo codes, an extension of the conventional turbo-coding scheme, has shown a significant increase in bit-error rate performance at moderate to high signal-to-noise ratios for short frame lengths. Superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes (SCTC) makes use of superorthogonal signals to improve the performance of the conventional turbo codes and a coding scheme that applies the repeat-punctured technique into SCTC has shown to perform better. We investigated two new low-rate coding schemes, repeat-punctured superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes (RPSCTC) and dual-repeat-punctured superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes (DRPSCTC), that make use of superorthogonal signaling, together with repetition and puncturing, to improve the performance of SCTC for reliable and effective communications. Simulation results in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and the frequency non-selective Rayleigh fading channel are presented together with analytical bounds of bit error probabilities, derived from transfer function bounding techniques. From the simulation results and the analytical bounds presented, it is evident that RPSCTC and DRPSCTC offer a more superior performance than SCTC in the AWGN channel, as well as in flat Rayleigh non-line-of-sight fading channels. The distance spectrum is also presented for the new schemes and accounts for the performance improvement rendered in simulations. It is important to note that the improved performance that SCTC, and consequently RPSCTC and DRPSCTC, exhibit is achieved at the expense of bandwidth expansion and complexity and would be ideal for power-limited satellite communication links or interference-limited systems.

Author Biography

  • Narushan Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal
    School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College campus, King George V Avenue, Durban 4041, South Africa

Published

2010-11-18

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Research Articles

How to Cite

Pillay, N., Xu, H., & Takawira, F. (2010). Repeat-punctured superorthogonal convolutional turbo codes on AWGN and flat Rayleigh fading channels. South African Journal of Science, 106(11/12), 11 pages. https://sajs.co.za/article/view/10096
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