EXIT-chart-based power allocations for superposition multilevel coding systems

Xiuni Wang; Xiao Ma

ChinaCom2008-Information and Coding Theory Symposium

Research Article

EXIT-chart-based power allocations for superposition multilevel coding systems

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685037,
    author={Xiuni Wang and Xiao Ma},
    title={EXIT-chart-based power allocations for superposition multilevel coding systems},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Information and Coding Theory Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-ICT},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={Multilevel coding superposition EXIT power allocation},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685037}
}

Xiuni Wang
Xiao Ma
Year: 2008
EXIT-chart-based power allocations for superposition multilevel coding systems
CHINACOM2008-ICT
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685037

Xiuni Wang¹^,*, Xiao Ma¹^,*

1: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China

*Contact email: wxiun@mail2.sysu.edu.cn, maxiao@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Abstract

Multilevel coding with sigma-mapping is one simple way to obtain coding gain as well as shaping gain, while powerallocation, by allocating proper powers to different levels, can facilitate the iterative decoding/detection algorithms. In this paper, we utilize the EXIT chart to calculate the convergence threshold for each level by treating the signals from other levels as Gaussian noise. Based on the threshold, we propose a simple power allocation scheme. Numerical results show that the proposed EXIT-based power allocation scheme improves the performance when compared with the existing Gaussian approximation power allocation scheme while still keeping a reasonable complexity.

Keywords: Multilevel coding superposition EXIT power allocation

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685037