• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
• /
• v.41 no.9
• /
• pp.39-48
• /
• 2004

Turbo codes, whose performance in bit error rate is close to the Shannon limit, have been adopted as a part of standard for the third-generation high-speed wireless data services. Iterative Turbo decoding results in decoding delay and high power consumption. As wireless communication systems can only use limited power supply, low power design techniques are essential for mobile device implementation. This paper proposes new effective criteria for stopping the iteration process in turbo decoding to reduce power consumption. By setting two stopping criteria, decodable threshold and undecodable threshold, we can effectively reduce the number of decoding iterations with only negligible error-correcting performance degradation. Simulation results show that the number of unsuccessful error-correction can be reduced by 89% and the number of decoding iterations can be reduced by 29% on the average among 12500 simulations when compared with those of an existing typical method.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
• /
• v.29 no.8 s.104
• /
• pp.755-761
• /
• 2005

In this paper, we propose a high-speed adaptive PTS method which eliminates high PAR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) and we compare the proposed method with other conventional methods. In addition, we have designed a combined type SLM-PTS scheme to reduce PAR and evaluate the performance. The system used for evaluating PAR performance can be constructed as COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) applying ETD(Enhabced Time Diversity)-Turbo coding scheme. All the analyses in this paper are focused on the system characteristics according to IFFT's point and modulation method and the performance evaluation are based on the PAR reduction rates. As a result, the SLM-PTS combination method reveals good PAR reduction rate and remarkable reduction in the amount of calculations. Especially, in the case of combine-3 scheme, we can achieve approximately $3.7\~3.9$ dB PAR reduction on a basis of 10-5 BER level. Moreover, we can eliminate the side information in COFDM system because of its adaptive characteristics in evaluating PAR reduction rate, so that the additional errors can be omitted.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
• /
• v.43 no.12 s.354
• /
• pp.1-8
• /
• 2006

In this paper, we propose carrier phase synchronization algorithm which are base on turbo coded system for DVB-RCS. There have been two categories of phase estimator, single estimator outside turbo code decoder and multiple estimators inside turbo code decoder. In single estimator, we use the estimation algorithm that ML(Maximum Likelihood) and LMS(Least Mean Square), also three different soft decision methods are proposed. Multiple estimator apply PSP(Per Survivor Processing) algorithm additionally. We compared performance between single estimator and Multiple estimator in AWGN channel. We presented the two methods of PSP algorithm for performance elevation. First is the Bi-directional channel estimation and second is binding method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
• /
• v.42 no.6 s.336
• /
• pp.9-16
• /
• 2005

It is well blown about the fact that turbo code has better the BER performance as the number of decoding iterations increases in the AWGN channel environment. However, as the number of decoding iterations is increased under the several channel environments, any further iteration results in very little improvement, and it requires much delay and computation in proportion to the number of decoding iterations. In this paper, it proposes the efficient iterative decoding stop criterion algorithm which can largely reduce the computation and the average number of decoding iterations of turbo code. Through simulations, it is verifying that the proposed algorithm can efficiently stop the iterative decoding by using the variance value of LLR and can largely reduce the computation and the average number of decoding iterations without BER performance degradation. As a result of simulation, the computation for the proposed algerian is reduced by about $40\%$ compared to conventional CE algorithm. The average number of decoding iterations for the proposed algorithm is reduced by about $9.94\%$ and $8.32\%$ compared to conventional HDA and SCR algorithm respectively, and by about $2.16\%{\~}7.84\%$ compared to conventional CE algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
• /
• 2005.11a
• /
• pp.61-62
• /
• 2005

In this paper, we investigate the encoding and decoding method of turbo codes that offer a variety of coding rates from 1/3 to 6/7 in Digital Video Broadcast Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS) standard to provide ship-internet service with high-quality.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
• /
• 2001.09a
• /
• pp.959-962
• /
• 2001

Turbo codes of long block sizes have been known to show very good performance in an AWGN channel and the turbo code has been strongly recommended as error correction code for IMT-2000 in 3GPP(3rd Generation Partnership Project). Recently, turbo codes of short block sizes suitable for real time communication systems have attracted a lot of attention. Thus, in this paper we consider the turbo code of 1/3 code rate and short frame size of 192 bits in ITU-R channel model. We analyzed the performance of W-CDMA systems of 10MHz bandwidths employing RAKE receiver with not only MRC diversity but also turbo code.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
• /
• 2000.09a
• /
• pp.41-46
• /
• 2000

In this paper, we analyze the performance of W-CDMA systems using turbo code in the wideband multipath channel. The strength of each multipath component is assumed to be Rayleigh distributed. Turbo codes of long block sizes have been known to show very good performance in a AWGN channel. Recently, turbo codes of short block sizes suitable for real time communication systems have attracted a lot of attention. Thus, in this paper we consider the turbo code of 1/3 code rate and short frame size of 192 bits in wideband mobile multipath channel. We analyze the performance of W-CDMA systems with 10MHz bandwidths in the case of employing RAKE receiver with not only MRC diversity but also turbo code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
• /
• 2004.11a
• /
• pp.279-279
• /
• 2004

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.26 no.8A
• /
• pp.1441-1449
• /
• 2001

차세대 멀티미디어 이동통신인 IMT-2000의 규격에서는 3GPP와 3GPP2에서 모두 터보 코드를 채널 코덱으로 채택하고 있다. 그 중 3GPP 에서는 용도에 따라 길쌈부호와, 제한길이 4인 1/3 터보코드를 선택적으로 사용하도록 정의되어 있다. 터보코드는 복호기의 출력으로 경판정 복호 비트에 대한 신뢰도 값을 동시에 생성하여, 이를 이용한 반복복호로 우수한 BER 특성을 얻을 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 3GPP 규격의 터보 복호기에 적용할 수 있는 내부 복호기로서 SOVA 복호기를 설계하였다. 또한 터보 복호기에서의 연판정 출력값의 중요성을 감안하여, 누적메트릭 정규화에 있어서 신뢰도 값에 영향을 주지않는 구조를 제안하여 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 효율적인 구조의 3GPP SOVA 복호기를 설계하기 위하여 C++를 이용하여 알고리즘에 대한 성능을 검증하였으며, 이를 기반으로 VHDL을 이용하여 복호기를 설계하였다. 마지막으로 Altera사의 EPF10K100GC503 FPGA를 이용하여 복호기를 하드웨어로 구현하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.29 no.10C
• /
• pp.1387-1394
• /
• 2004

Turbo code, a kind of error correction coding technique, has been used in the field of digital mobile communication systems. And it is well known about the fact that turbo code has better the BER performance as the number of decoding iterations increases in the AWGN channel environment. However, as the number of decoding iterations is increased under the several channel environments, any further iteration results in very little improvement, and it requires much delay, computation and power consumption in proportion to the number of decoding iterations. In this paper, it proposes the efficient iterative decoding stop criterion algorithm which can largely reduce the average number of decoding iterations of turbo code. Through simulations, it is verifying that the proposed algorithm can efficiently stop the iterative decoding by using the variance value of error probability for the soft output value, and can largely reduce the average number of decoding iterations without BER performance degradation. As a result of simulation, the average number of decoding iterations for the proposed algorithm is reduced by about 2.25% ~14.31％ and 3.79％ ~14.38% respectively compared to conventional schemes, and power consumption is saved in proportion to the number of decoding iterations.