Adaptive-Rate Turbo Product Coding for Frequency-Hop Transmission and Time-Varying Partial-Band Interference

Abstract

A protocol is described and evaluated for adapting the rate of a turbo code for frequency-hop packet transmissions over time-varying partial-band interference channels. The rate of the turbo code is adapted from packet to packet to optimize the throughput. In particular, the protocol is designed to use a high-rate code when there is little interference and a low-rate code when the interference occupies a significant fraction of the band, even though neither the transmitter nor the receiver know what fraction of the band contains interference. No external side information is provided to the receiver, and our scheme requires no additional redundancy (e.g., pilot symbols) in the data packet for the generation of side information. The information needed to adapt the code rate is derived from our adaptive decoding system, and the only feedback required from the receiver to the transmitter is provided by a few bits in each acknowledgment packet. Results on the performance of the protocol are given from turbo product codes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 24, 2003
Accession Number
ADA416935

Entities

People

  • Michael B. Pursley

Organizations

  • Clemson University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Coding
  • Computer Programming
  • Decoders
  • Decoding
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Agility
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Diversity
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Information Operations
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Models
  • Probability
  • Symbols
  • Throughput

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.