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Spatially coupled turbo-like codes : A new trade-off between waterfall and error floor

Moloudi, Saeedeh LU ; Lentmaier, Michael LU and Graell I Amat, Alexandre (2019) In IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(5). p.3114-3123
Abstract

Spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs) have been shown to have excellent decoding thresholds due to the threshold saturation effect. Furthermore, even for moderate block lengths, the simulation results demonstrate a very good bit error rate performance in the waterfall region. In this paper, we discuss the effect of spatial coupling on the performance of TCs in the finite block-length regime. We investigate the effect of coupling on the error floor performance of SC-TCs by establishing conditions under which the spatial coupling either preserves or improves the minimum distance of TCs. This allows us to investigate the error floor performance of SC-TCs by performing a weight enumerator function analysis of the corresponding... (More)

Spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs) have been shown to have excellent decoding thresholds due to the threshold saturation effect. Furthermore, even for moderate block lengths, the simulation results demonstrate a very good bit error rate performance in the waterfall region. In this paper, we discuss the effect of spatial coupling on the performance of TCs in the finite block-length regime. We investigate the effect of coupling on the error floor performance of SC-TCs by establishing conditions under which the spatial coupling either preserves or improves the minimum distance of TCs. This allows us to investigate the error floor performance of SC-TCs by performing a weight enumerator function analysis of the corresponding uncoupled ensembles. Our results demonstrate that the spatial coupling changes the design trade-off between the waterfall and error floor performance. Instead of optimizing the belief propagation (BP) threshold of uncoupled TCs, which in turn leads to a higher error floor, we can take advantage of the threshold saturation property of the SC-TCs. Choosing strong ensembles, characterized by good maximum-A-posteriori (MAP) thresholds and low error floors, the corresponding SC-TCs are then able to simultaneously approach capacity and achieve very low error floor.

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Bound on minimum distance, expurgated bounds, spatially coupled turbo-like codes, union bound, weight enumerator analysis
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IEEE Transactions on Communications
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10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2896584
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  author       = {{Moloudi, Saeedeh and Lentmaier, Michael and Graell I Amat, Alexandre}},
  issn         = {{0090-6778}},
  keywords     = {{Bound on minimum distance; expurgated bounds; spatially coupled turbo-like codes; union bound; weight enumerator analysis}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{5}},
  pages        = {{3114--3123}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Transactions on Communications}},
  title        = {{Spatially coupled turbo-like codes : A new trade-off between waterfall and error floor}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2896584}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2896584}},
  volume       = {{67}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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