RESEARCH OF CHARACTERISTICS OF NOISE IMMUNITY WITH USE OF ORTHOGONAL CODING
In the digital communication systems for noise immunity's increase with the fixed code rate it is proposed to use an additional orthogonal coding developed by the authors. It is an analogue of convolutional coding over the rational numbers' field. Transmission of digital signals in Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and fading channels is considered including a joint use of the orthogonal and correcting codes (block and convolutional). It is shown that losses in signal-to-noise ratio can be significantly reduced by use of orthogonal coding. By increase of matrices' order, on which basis orthogonal codes are constructed, the coding gain grows also. By use of the proposed by the authors orthogonal coding the required quality of communication is implemented with a smaller energy cost. The significant coding gain (up to 6,4 dB in the channels with the AWGN, up to 22,74 dB in the fading channels) provided by more effective use of energy of transmitted signals is reached without increase in complexity and cost of transmitting/receiving devices.