Bandwidth Efficient Low Density Parity Check Coding using Multi Level Coding and Iterative Multi Stage Decoding

Turbo Symp. 2000  
Brest, France  
July, 2000  
          K. R. Narayanan,  J. Li

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Abstract -- The Design of bandwidth efficient codes using low density parity check codes (LDPC) is studied. Bit interleaved coded modulation using LDPC codes and multilevel coding using LDPC codes are considered. An iterative decoding strategy which includes soft-decision feedback between the lower and higher levels in a multilevel coding scheme is proposed. Some practical considerations in designing LDPC codes with multilevel coding are addressed and, finally, the bit error rate performance and decoding complexity of the proposed coding techniques are compared with those of turbo trellis coded modulation techniques.

Keywords -- Low density parity check (LDPC) codes, bandwidth efficient coding, mutli-level coding (MLC) with iterative multi-stage decoding (MSD), bit interleaved coded modulation (BICM), iterative decoding