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Optimum Inner and Outer Code Rates for Concatenated Codes in Gaussian Binary Symmetric Channels  

Lee, Ye Hoon (서울과학기술대학교 전자IT미디어공학과)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.9, no.2, 2014 , pp. 110-113 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we address a problem of finding the optimum inner and outer code rates for a concatenated code in Gaussian binary symmetric channels. Clearly, as the inner code rate decreases, the error detection capability of the inner code increases. However, decreasing the inner code rate implies a decrease in error-correction capability of the outer code when overall code rate is fixed. With this notion in mind, we examine the optimum distribution of redundancy on the outer and inner codes to achieve a maximum performance gain in the concatenated coding scheme. Our analysis shows that the maximum coding gain can be obtained when the inner code rate is maximized and the outer code rate is minimized under the constraint of total code rate is fixed.
Keywords
Concatenated code; code rate; optimum redundancy; Gaussian channel; binary symmetric channel;
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