Spatially Coupled Turbo Codes: Principles and Finite Length Performance
Paper in proceeding, 2014

In this paper, we give an overview of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), the spatial coupling of parallel and serially concatenated convolutional codes, recently introduced by the authors. For presentation purposes, we focus on spatially coupled serially concatenated codes (SC-SCCs). We review the main principles of SC-TCs and discuss their exact density evolution (DE) analysis on the binary erasure channel. We also consider the construction of a family of rate-compatible SC-SCCs with simple 4-state component encoders. For all considered code rates, threshold saturation of the belief propagation (BP) to the maximum a posteriori threshold of the uncoupled ensemble is demonstrated, and it is shown that the BP threshold approaches the Shannon limit as the coupling memory increases. Finally we give some simulation results for finite lengths.

Author

Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

Saeedeh Moloudi

Lund University

Michael Lentmaier

Lund University

11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014; Barcelona; Spain; 26 August 2014 through 29 August 2014

883-887 6933478
978-147995863-4 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ISWCS.2014.6933478

ISBN

978-147995863-4

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