scholarly journals Design of Improved BP Decoders and Corresponding LT Code Degree Distribution for AWGN Channels

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Li Su

This paper presents the performance of a hard decision belief propagation (HDBP) decoder used for Luby transform (LT) codes over additive white Gaussian noise channels; subsequently, three improved HDBP decoders are proposed. We first analyze the performance improvement of the sorted ripple and delayed decoding process in a HDBP decoder; subsequently, we propose ripple-sorted belief propagation (RSBP) as well as ripple-sorted and delayed belief propagation (RSDBP) decoders to improve the bit error rate (BER). Based on the analysis of the distribution of error encoded symbols, we propose a ripple-sorted and threshold-based belief propagation (RSTBP) decoder, which deletes low-reliability encoded symbols, to further improve the BER. Degree distribution significantly affects the performance of LT codes. Therefore, we propose a method for designing optimal degree distributions for the proposed decoders. Through simulation results, we demonstrate that the proposed RSBP and RSDBP decoders provide significantly better BER performances than the HDBP decoder. RSDBP and RSTDP combined with the proposed degree distributions outperformed state-of-the-art degree distributions in terms of the number of encoded symbols required to recover an input symbol correctly (NERRIC) and the frame error rate (FER). For a hybrid decoder formulated by combining RSDBP with a soft decision belief propagation decoder, the proposed degree distribution outperforms the other degree distributions in terms of decoding complexity.

2011 ◽  
Vol 271-273 ◽  
pp. 258-263
Author(s):  
Li Shuang Hu ◽  
Ming Shan Liu ◽  
Yuan Zhou ◽  
Yang Sun

At present, Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes widely used in many fields of communications have the best performance of all the Error Correcting Codes (ECC). This paper mainly studies the decoding algorithms of LDPC. It proposes an improved algorithm which is named Check-Variable nodes Hybrid(CVH) algorithm on the basis of the existing algorithms. The CVH algorithm can reduce the computational complexity during the check-node update while overcome with the correlation between the variable-node news in a code with circles. As well as, comparing with the original algorithms the performance of the new one saves 0.1 and 0.3 dB than Log-likelihood Ratios (LLR) Belief Propagation (BP) and BP - based algorithms under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel when the Bit Error Rate (BER) falls to through the simulation. This point shows that this algorithm can increase the decoding performance and reduce the error rate effectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6975
Author(s):  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Lun He ◽  
Xudong Li ◽  
Guoqing Feng

Lipreading aims to recognize sentences being spoken by a talking face. In recent years, the lipreading method has achieved a high level of accuracy on large datasets and made breakthrough progress. However, lipreading is still far from being solved, and existing methods tend to have high error rates on the wild data and have the defects of disappearing training gradient and slow convergence. To overcome these problems, we proposed an efficient end-to-end sentence-level lipreading model, using an encoder based on a 3D convolutional network, ResNet50, Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN), and a CTC objective function as the decoder. More importantly, the proposed architecture incorporates TCN as a feature learner to decode feature. It can partly eliminate the defects of RNN (LSTM, GRU) gradient disappearance and insufficient performance, and this yields notable performance improvement as well as faster convergence. Experiments show that the training and convergence speed are 50% faster than the state-of-the-art method, and improved accuracy by 2.4% on the GRID dataset.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umar Farooq ◽  
Alexandre Graell i Amat ◽  
Michael Lentmaier

In this paper, we perform a belief propagation (BP) decoding threshold analysis of spatially coupled (SC) turbo-like codes (TCs) (SC-TCs) on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. We review Monte-Carlo density evolution (MC-DE) and efficient prediction methods, which determine the BP thresholds of SC-TCs over the AWGN channel. We demonstrate that instead of performing time-consuming MC-DE computations, the BP threshold of SC-TCs over the AWGN channel can be predicted very efficiently from their binary erasure channel (BEC) thresholds. From threshold results, we conjecture that the similarity of MC-DE and predicted thresholds is related to the threshold saturation capability as well as capacity-approaching maximum a posteriori (MAP) performance of an SC-TC ensemble.


2021 ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
D.D. Privalov

The sampling rate at a given bit rate is a requirement for the speed of digital signal processors. In this regard, it is necessary to strive to reduce it in the development of electronic devices, especially portable ones. However, this can lead to an increase in the bit error rate during signal detection. Therefore, it is important to determine the degradation of signal detection with decreasing sampling frequency and to develop practical recommendations to ensure the specified quality of communication. The aim of the article is to study the influence of sampling frequency and interpolation on the bit error rate of GMSK Signal. The article considers the incoherent detection of a GMSK signal in a channel with additive white Gaussian noise, taking into account the influence of the clock synchronization error. Numerical results are presented that characterize an increase in the bit error rate with a decrease in the signal sampling frequency. It is shown that when using the cubic Farrow interpolator, there is no significant degradation in the bit error probability. The minimum number of samples per symbol is determined, at which the bit error rate is close to the theoretical values in the absence of synchronization error. The presented results can be used in development of wireless data transmission systems.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulqader Mahmoud ◽  
Frederic Vanderveken ◽  
Florin Ciubotaru ◽  
Christoph Adelmann ◽  
Said Hamdioui ◽  
...  

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient SW based approximate 4:2 compressor comprising a 3-input and a 5-input Majority gate. We validate our proposal by means of micromagnetic simulations, and assess and compare its performance with one of the state-of-the-art SW, 45nm CMOS, and Spin-CMOS counterparts. The evaluation results indicate that the proposed compressor consumes 31.5\% less energy in comparison with its accurate SW design version. Furthermore, it has the same energy consumption and error rate as the approximate compressor with Directional Coupler (DC), but it exhibits 3x lower delay. In addition, it consumes 14% less energy, while having 17% lower average error rate than the approximate 45nm CMOS counterpart. When compared with the other emerging technologies, the proposed compressor outperforms approximate Spin-CMOS based compressor by 3 orders of magnitude in term of energy consumption while providing the same error rate. Finally, the proposed compressor requires the smallest chip real-estate measured in terms of devices.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulqader Mahmoud ◽  
Frederic Vanderveken ◽  
Florin Ciubotaru ◽  
Christoph Adelmann ◽  
Said Hamdioui ◽  
...  

By their very nature Spin Waves (SWs) enable the realization of energy efficient circuits as they propagate and interfere within waveguides without consuming noticeable energy. However, SW computing can be even more energy efficient by taking advantage of the approximate computing paradigm as many applications are error-tolerant like multimedia and social media. In this paper we propose an ultra-low energy novel Approximate Full Adder (AFA) and a 2-bit inputs Multiplier (AMUL). The approximate FA consists of one Majority gate while the approximate MUL is built by means of 3 AND gates. We validate the correct functionality of our proposal by means of micromagnetic simulations and evaluate the approximate FA figure of merit against state-of-the-art accurate SW, 7nm CMOS, Spin Hall Effect (SHE), Domain Wall Motion (DWM), accurate and approximate 45nm CMOS, Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ), and Spin-CMOS FA implementations. Our results indicate that AFA consumes 43% and 33% less energy than state-of-the-art accurate SW and 7nm CMOS FA, respectively, and saves 69% and 44% when compared with accurate and approximate 45nm CMOS, respectively, and provides a 2 orders of magnitude energy reduction when compared with accurate SHE, accurate and approximate DWM, MTJ, and Spin-CMOS, counterparts. In addition, it achieves the same error rate as approximate 45nm CMOS and Spin-CMOS FA whereas it exhibits 50% less error rate than the approximate DWM FA. Furthermore, it outperforms its contenders in terms of area by saving at least 29% chip real-estate. AMUL is evaluated and compared with state-of-the-art accurate SW and 16nm CMOS accurate and approximate state-of-the-art designs. The evaluation results indicate that it saves at least 2x and 5x energy in comparison with the state-of-the-art SW designs and 16nm CMOS accurate and approximate designs, respectively, and has an average error rate of 10%, while the approximate CMOS MUL has an average error rate of 12.5%, and requires at least 64% less chip real-estate.


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