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Performance of Serial Concatenated Convolutional Codes according to the Concatenation Methods of Component Codes

구성부호의 연접방법에 따른 직렬연접 길쌈부호의 성능

  • 배상재 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 이상훈 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 주언경 (경북대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 2002.01.01
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Abstract

In this paper, the performance of three types of serial concatenated convolutional codes (SCCC) in AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel is compared and analyzed. As results of simulations, it can be observed that Type I shows the best error performance at lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. However, Type III shows the best error performance at higher SNR region. It can be also observed the error floor that the performance cannot be improved even though increasing of the number of iterations and SNR at Type I. However, the performance of Type II and Type III are still improved over the five iterations at higher SNR without error floor. And BER performance of three types can be closed to upper bound of three types with increase of SNR. It can be also observed that the upper bound of Type III shows the best performance among the three types due to the greatest free distance.

본 논문에서는 AWGN 채널환경에서 직렬연접 길쌈부호(serial concatenated convolutional codes; SCCC)의 세 가지 형태에 대한 성능을 비교 및 분석한다. 모의실험 결과 낮은 신호 대 잡음비(signal-to-noise ratio; SNR) 영역에서는 첫 번째 형태의 성능이 가장 우수하였다. 그러나 높은 SNR 영역에서는 세 번째 형태의 성능이 가장 우수함을 아 수 있었다. 그리고 첫 번째 형태에서는 SNR과 반복복호 횟수를 증가시키더라도 성능이 더 이상 향상되지 않는 오류마루(error floor)가 발생하였다. 그러나 두 번째와 세 번째 형태는 높은 SNR에서 반복복호를 5회 이상 수행하더라도 성능이 계속 향상되며 오류마루가 나타나지 않았다. 그리고 SNR이 증가할수록 세 가지 직렬연접 길쌈부호의 BER 성능은 각각의 상위경계(upper bound) 성능에 근접해짐을 알 수 있었다. 또한 자유거리(free distance)가 가장 큰 세 번째 직렬연접 길쌈부호가 세 가지 구조 중에서 가장 우수한 상위경계 성능을 나타내었다.

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