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Rate compatible block turbo codes for hybrid ARQ schemes

  • Sooyoung Kim*
  • , Jae Moung Kim
  • , Sung Pal Lee
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
  • Inha University

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Abstract

Rate compatible (RC) codes are used for adaptive coding schemes or hybrid ARQ schemes in order to adapt varying channel conditions. This can improve overall service quality or the system throughput. Conventional RC codes have usually been designed on the basis of convolutional codes. This letter proposes an efficient RC code based on block codes. We use a high dimensional product code and divide it into the information block and a number of parity blocks. We form RC product codes using various combinations of these blocks. Because we can decode the RC product codes iteratively, these result in block turbo codes and they can be used efficiently for hybrid ARQ schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)999-1001
Number of pages3
JournalIEICE Transactions on Communications
VolumeE87-B
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2004.04

Keywords

  • ARQ
  • Block codes
  • Product codes
  • Turbo codes

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