• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.45-49
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• 2016

The performance of underwater acoustic communication systems is sensitive to inter-symbol interference caused by delay spread developed from multipath signal propagation. The multipath nature of underwater channels causes signal distortion and error floor. In order to improve the performance, it is necessary to employ an iterative coding scheme. Of the various iterative coding schemes, turbo code and convolutional code based on the BCJR algorithm have recently dominated this application. In this study, the performance of iterative codes based on turbo equalizers with equivalent coding rates and similar code word lengths were analyzed. Underwater acoustic communication system experiments using these two coding techniques were conducted on Kyeong-chun Lake in Munkyeong City. The distance between the transmitter and receiver was 400 m, and the data transfer rate was 1 Kbps. The experimental results revealed that the performance of turbo codes is better for channeling than that of convolutional codes that use a BCJR decoding algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.9A
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• pp.1313-1321
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• 2000

In recent years LEO(Low Earth Orbit) satellite communication systems have gained a lot of interest as high speed multimedia services by satellite are about to be provided. It is mandatory to use very efficient ECC(Error Correcting Code) to support high speed multimedia services over LEO satellite channel. Turbo codes developed by Berrou et al. in 1993 have been actively researched since it can achieve a performance close to the Shannon limit. In this paper, a LEO satellite channel model is adopted and the fading characteristics of LEO satellite channel are analyzed for the change of elevation angle in various propagation environments. The performance of turbo code is analyzed and compared to that of conventional convolutional code using the satellite channel model. In the simulation results using the Globalstar orbit constellations, performance of turbo codes shows 1.0~2.0dB coding gain compared to that of convolutional codes over all elevation angle and propagation environment ranges we have investigated. The performance difference resulting from the change of elevation angle in various propagation environments and the performance of different ECC are analyzed in detail, so that the results can be applied to choose an appropriate ECC scheme for various system environment.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.144-149
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• 2016

In this paper, we analyze a QPSK MODEM over underwater acoustic channel model. Ambient noises and parameters of underwater environments debase the BER performance of an underwater modem. In the paper, the BER performance of uncoded QPSK and rate-2/3 convolutional coded QPSK is analyzed. And To improve BER Performance, we apply a channel equalization technique to the underwater modem.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.19-22
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• 1998

In this study, the efficient channel coding method combined with CS-ACELP is proposed. The same convolutional coder and Viterbi decoder of COMA mobile communication system is used as channel coder. To make the best available use of limited channel coding redundancy, unequal error protection of punctured convolutional coder is used for variable reate allocation. But, the overall code rate is given by 2. The performance of proposed coder is analyzed and simulated in a Rayleigh fading channel. Experimental results show that the objective and subjective speech quality of variable rate channel coding methods are superior to those of non-variable channel coding method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.252-258
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• 2000

In this paper, we improve error performance for BPSK and QPSK when the carrier recovery signal is not perfect in the multipath Rician fading channel based on DS-CDMA system. In the case, we use the MRC(Maximal Ratio Combining) diversity and convolutional coding technique in order to overcome this carrier phase error and Rician fading. With results of analysis, we know that the appropriate use of MRC diversity and convolutional code reduced considerably performance degradation due to phase error.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 1990

The unequal bit-error control of rate r=b/n binary convolutional code is analyzed. The error protection afforded to each digit of the viterbi decoded b-tuple information word can be different from that afforded to other digit. The property of the unequal protection can be applied for improvement of SNR in transmitting sampled data of DPCM system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.40-49
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a symbol-level iterative source-channel decoding (ISCD) algorithm for reliable transmission of variable-length codes (VLCs). Firstly, an improved source a posteriori probability (APP) decoding approach is proposed for packetized variable-length encoded Markov sources. Also proposed is a recursive implementation based on a three-dimensional joint trellis for symbol decoding of binary convolutional codes. APP channel decoding on this joint trellis is realized by modification of the Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv algorithm and adaptation to the non-stationary VLC trellis. Simulation results indicate that the proposed ISCD scheme allows to exchange between its constituent decoders the symbol-level extrinsic information and achieves high robustness against channel noises.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.300-303
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• 2003

In this paper, a baseband module of the spread spectrum system with FPGA is designed. A spread spectrum system spreads the signal bandwidth necessary for information transmission. We focused on the design of FEC decoder, especially the convolutional code fo constraint length K=3, rate R=l/2, is designed. For the VHDL design the Xilinx Foundation 3.1 is used. As results, a spread spectrum modem with convolutional coding is designed and we have plan to apply this modem to short distances wireless communication.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9A
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• pp.1276-1284
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• 1999

We have evaluated the BER's and CLP's of Wireless ATM (WATM) cells employing the concatenated FEC code with pilot symbols for fading compensation through the simulation in indoor wireless channel modeled as a Rayleigh and a Rician fading channel, respectively. The results of the performance evaluation are compared with those obtained by employing the convolutional code in the same condition. In Rayleigh fading channel, considering the maximum tolerance BER ( $10^-3$) as a criterion of the voice service, it is blown that the performance improvement of about 4 dB is obtained in terms of $E_b/N_o$ by employing the concatenated FEC code with pilot symbols rather than the convolutional code with pilot symbols.When the values of K parameter which means the ratio of the direct signal to scattered signal power in Rician fading channel are 6 and 10, it is shown that the performance improvement of about 4 dB and 2 dB is obtained, respectively, in terms of $E_b/N_o$ by employing the concatenated FEC code with pilot symbols considering the maximum tolerance BER of the voice service. Also in Rician fading channel of K=6 and K= 10, considering CLP = $10^-3$ as a criterion, it is observed that the performance improvement of about 3.5 dB and1.5 dB is obtained, respectively, in terms of $E_b/N_o$ by employing the concatenated FEC code with pilot symbols.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 1993

In this paper, a new digital mobile channel has been modeled. And concatenated code systems have been proposed to transmit information reliably in the newly modeled mobile fading channels. The BCH code has been used as the outer code and the convolutional code as the inner code. We have modeled the channels which have multipath fading phenomena and additive white Gaussian noise. As a result, the characteristics of the channels are identical to that of the mobile fading channel. To find the best code system, we have tested (7, 4), (63, 45), (63, 57) and (31.26) BCH codes as an outer code. Results show that the concatenated code with (7, 4) outer code gives the best performance. And if we use the soft decision, we can improve about 2 -6 dB in the SNR