On BICM-ID with Multiple Interleavers
Journal article, 2010

In this letter, we study the performance of BICM-ID with multiple interleavers (BICM-ID-M) in terms of bit-error rate (BER), and show that BICM-ID-M is well-suited to exploit the unequal error protection (UEP) caused by the binary labeling. We show that BICM-ID-M should always be the preferred alternative for BICM-ID and that the gains obtained appear even for the simplest configuration (0.5-0.75 dB for a BER of 10-7). It is found that conventional design paradigms such as maximizing the free distance of the code should be modified.

UEP.

M-interleavers

BICM

BICM-ID

Author

Alex Alvarado

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Leszek Szczecinski

INRS-Energy, Materials and Telecommunications

Erik Agrell

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Arne Svensson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Letters

1089-7798 (ISSN) 15582558 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 9 785-787 5539724

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2010.072910.101005

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