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Joint Design of Source-Channel Codes with Linear Source Encoding Complexity and Good Channel Thresholds Based on Double-Protograph LDPC Codes

Information Theory 2023-10-17 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We propose the use of a lower or upper triangular sub-base matrix to replace the identity matrix in the source-check-channel-variable linking protomatrix of a double-protograph low-density parity-check joint-source-channel code (DP-LDPC JSCC). The elements along the diagonal of the proposed lower or upper triangular sub-base matrix are assigned as "1" and the other non-zero elements can take any non-negative integral values. Compared with the traditional DP-LDPC JSCC designs, the new designs show a theoretical channel threshold improvement of up to 0.41 dB and a simulated source symbol error rate improvement of up to 0.5 dB at an error rate of 1e-6.

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@article{arxiv.2309.14653,
  title  = {Joint Design of Source-Channel Codes with Linear Source Encoding Complexity and Good Channel Thresholds Based on Double-Protograph LDPC Codes},
  author = {Jia Zhan and Francis C. M. Lau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14653},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, to appear in IEEE Communications Letters

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