Efficient error-correcting codes in the short blocklength regime
Journal article, 2019
The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem that is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this paper, we review some of the most promising code constructions targeting the short block regime, and we compare them with both finite-length performance bounds and classical error-correction coding schemes. The work addresses the use of both binary and high-order modulations over the additive white Gaussian noise channel. We will illustrate how to effectively approach the theoretical bounds with various performance versus decoding complexity tradeoffs.
Finite-length performance bounds
Error-correcting codes
Coded modulation
Short packets
Author
Mustafa C. Coskun
Technical University of Munich
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Giuseppe Durisi
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Thomas Jerkovits
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
G. Liva
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
William Ryan
Zeta Associates, Inc.
Brian Stein
Zeta Associates, Inc.
Fabian Steiner
Technical University of Munich
Physical Communication
1874-4907 (ISSN)
Vol. 34 66-79Subject Categories
Telecommunications
Communication Systems
Signal Processing
DOI
10.1016/j.phycom.2019.03.004