Irregular Pattern Design to Improve Error Floor for 3D-Turbo Codes

Juan Xu, Rugui Yao, Fanqi Gao, Ya'nan Lu

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Abstract

In 3D-Turbo codes, part of parity bits from conventional Turbo encoder are encoded again by a post-encoder to reduce the number of low-weight codes and achieve better error floor performance. Considering the residual low-weight codes in 3D-Turbo codes, an irregular pattern design is proposed to further improve the error floor. All-zero iterative decoding algorithm is firstly utilized to identify the distribution of “1” in low-weight codes. Then an irregular pattern is optimized based on the distribution to eliminate low-weight codes. Finally, taking a practical 3D-Turbo codes, we adopt the proposed irregular pattern to increase the minimum Hamming distance from 18 to 20, which validates the effectiveness of our contribution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)523-527
Number of pages5
JournalXibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University
Volume35
Issue number3
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2017

Keywords

  • Channel coding
  • Error floor
  • Hamming distance
  • Iterative decoding

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