TR2003-124

Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels

    •  Ravi Palanki and Jonathan S. Yedidia, "Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels", Tech. Rep. TR2003-124, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, October 2003.
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      • @techreport{MERL_TR2003-124,
      • author = {Ravi Palanki and Jonathan S. Yedidia},
      • title = {Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2003-124},
      • month = oct,
      • year = 2003,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2003-124/}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Communications

Abstract:

We study the performance of the newly invented rateless codes (LT- and Raptor codes) on noisy channels such as the BSC and the AWGNC. We find that Raptor codes outperform LT codes, and have good performance on a wide variety of noisy channels.