TR2014-007

Ripple Design of LT Codes for BIAWGN Channels

    •  Sorensen, J.H., Koike-Akino, T., Orlik, P., Ostergaard, J., Popovski, P., "Ripple Design of LT Codes for BIAWGN Channels", IEEE Transactions on Communications, DOI: 10.1109/​TCOMM.2013.122013.130116, pp. 1-8, January 2014.
      BibTeX TR2014-007 PDF
      • @article{Sorensen2014jan,
      • author = {Sorensen, J.H. and Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. and Ostergaard, J. and Popovski, P.},
      • title = {Ripple Design of LT Codes for BIAWGN Channels},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Communications},
      • year = 2014,
      • pages = {1--8},
      • month = jan,
      • doi = {10.1109/TCOMM.2013.122013.130116},
      • issn = {0090-6778},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2014-007}
      • }
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Comparison between the proposed design and the work in Etesami and Shokrollahi (2006) with respect to bit error rate as a function of overhead.
Abstract:

This paper presents a novel framework, which enables a design of rateless codes for binary input additive white Gaussian noise (BIAWGN) channels, using the ripple-based approach known from the works for the binary erasure channel (BEC). We reveal that several aspects of the analytical results from the BEC also hold in BIAWGN channels. The presented framework is applied in a code design example, which shows promising results compared to existing work. In particular it shows a great robustness towards variations in the signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR), contrary to existing codes.