Code-Aware Power Allocation for Irregular LDPC Codes

Zeina Mheich; Valentin Savin

Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings

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Code-Aware Power Allocation for Irregular LDPC Codes

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_4,
    author={Zeina Mheich and Valentin Savin},
    title={Code-Aware Power Allocation for Irregular LDPC Codes},
    proceedings={Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
    year={2016},
    month={6},
    keywords={Irregular LDPC codes Unequal power allocation Density evolution Gaussian approximation},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_4}
}

Zeina Mheich
Valentin Savin
Year: 2016
Code-Aware Power Allocation for Irregular LDPC Codes
CROWNCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_4

Zeina Mheich¹^,*, Valentin Savin¹^,*

1: CEA-LETI

*Contact email: Zeina.Mheich@cea.fr, Valentin.Savin@cea.fr

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a code-dependent unequal power allocation method for Gaussian channels using irregular LDPC codes. This method allocates the power for each set of coded bits depending on the degree of their equivalent variable nodes. We propose a new algorithm to optimize the power allocation vector using density evolution algorithm under the Gaussian approximation. We show that unequal power allocation can bring noticeable gains on the threshold of some irregular LDPC codes with respect to the classical equal power allocation method depending on the code and the maximum number of decoding iterations.

Keywords: Irregular LDPC codes Unequal power allocation Density evolution Gaussian approximation

Published: 2016-06-06
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_4