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Evolutionary Algorithm Aided Interleaver Design for Serially Concatenated Codes

Evolutionary Algorithm Aided Interleaver Design for Serially Concatenated Codes
Evolutionary Algorithm Aided Interleaver Design for Serially Concatenated Codes
In this paper, we propose an algorithm for designing the interleavers of Serially Concatenated Codes (SCCs), in order to increase the Minimum Hamming Distance (MHD) between the legitimate permutations of the encoded bit sequence and hence to improve the corresponding error floor. Unlike previous so-called Code Matched Interleaver (CMI) designs, our approach is capable of creating interleavers for serial concatenations of both irregular and non-linear codes, as well as achieving MHDs that are arbitrarily close to the maximum possible, provided that a sufficiently high off-line complexity is affordable. However, owing to the efficiency of the proposed approach, only a relatively low number of algorithm generations are required to achieve significant improvements to the error floor of low-delay wireless sensor network, speech and audio schemes, for example. Indeed, we demonstrate that our interleavers are capable of completely eradicating the error floors that would otherwise be apparent, if classic random or S-random interleavers were employed.
interleaver, serial concatenation, evolutionary algorithm, distance spectrum, fixed length code, FLC, unitary rate code, URC, termination, iterative decoding, error pattern, error event, error floor
1753-1758
Maunder, R. G.
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Hanzo, L.
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Maunder, R. G.
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Hanzo, L.
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Maunder, R. G. and Hanzo, L. (2011) Evolutionary Algorithm Aided Interleaver Design for Serially Concatenated Codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 59 (7), 1753-1758. (doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2011.042111.090321).

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In this paper, we propose an algorithm for designing the interleavers of Serially Concatenated Codes (SCCs), in order to increase the Minimum Hamming Distance (MHD) between the legitimate permutations of the encoded bit sequence and hence to improve the corresponding error floor. Unlike previous so-called Code Matched Interleaver (CMI) designs, our approach is capable of creating interleavers for serial concatenations of both irregular and non-linear codes, as well as achieving MHDs that are arbitrarily close to the maximum possible, provided that a sufficiently high off-line complexity is affordable. However, owing to the efficiency of the proposed approach, only a relatively low number of algorithm generations are required to achieve significant improvements to the error floor of low-delay wireless sensor network, speech and audio schemes, for example. Indeed, we demonstrate that our interleavers are capable of completely eradicating the error floors that would otherwise be apparent, if classic random or S-random interleavers were employed.

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Published date: July 2011
Keywords: interleaver, serial concatenation, evolutionary algorithm, distance spectrum, fixed length code, FLC, unitary rate code, URC, termination, iterative decoding, error pattern, error event, error floor
Organisations: Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 267537
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267537
PURE UUID: 37151fbb-1272-438f-86d2-4288e92bedba
ORCID for R. G. Maunder: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7944-2615
ORCID for L. Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 09 Jun 2009 08:24
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: R. G. Maunder ORCID iD
Author: L. Hanzo ORCID iD

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