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Performance of serial concatenated interleaved codes in correlated multipath fading channels

AuthorNguyen Vu Luu
Call NumberAIT Thesis no.TC-98-08
Subject(s)Mobile communication systems

NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
AbstractSerial Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC) is proposed for data transmission over the downlink of a W-CDMA system employing BPSK modulation and coherent Rake receiver assuming perfect knowledge of channel side information. Frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel is considered. Iterative decoding using new sub-optimum Additive Soft Input Soft Output algorithm proposed in (Benedetto et al., 1996a) is applied for decoding the SCCC. The effects of correlated fading and fading rate to the perf01mance of the proposed system are examined. In particular, for mobile velocity 5 km/h and external interleaving delay 10 ms, BER of 10-3 is obtained at Ei/No of about 8 dB, assuming four decoder iterations. However, as the size of external interleaver increases by factor of ten, corresponding to external interleaving delay of 100 ms, Ei/No of only 5 dB is required for obtaining the same BER, assuming same number of decoder iterations. The simulation results show that the proposed system achieves very good performance, even with the relative simple SCCC encoding scheme. Moreover, it was observed that the SCCC coded system gives better performance compared to the convolutional coded system. Therefore, SCCCs are suitable for low BER data transmission applications in the future mobile radio communications systems.
Year1998
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Advanced Technologies
DepartmentOther Field of Studies (No Department)
Academic Program/FoSTelecommunications (TC)
Chairperson(s)Makelainen, Kimmo;Rajatheva, R.M.A.P.;
Examination Committee(s)Zhang, Jian-Guo ;
Scholarship Donor(s)Nokia Ltd. ;
DegreeThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998


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