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On the design of implementation of turbo-coded Hybrid-ARQ

The problem of the efficient use of Hybrid Automatic-Repeat-reQuest (Hybrid-ARQ) in wireless communication has attracted a considerable amount of research. In this thesis, the use and implementation of turbo codes as the Forward Error Correction (FEC) code for Hybrid-ARQ is investigated. The major accomplishments of the research include both the analysis and implementation of turbo Hybrid-ARQ. The thesis begins by obtaining a tractable bound for the performance of turbo codes with M-ary Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (M-ary QAM). The research considers the design problem of turbo coded Hybrid-ARQ optimized for AWGN and fading channels. The design problem of turbo Hybrid-ARQ in wideband channels is considered and an optimization strategy is proposed based on Orthogonal-Frequency-Division- Multiplexing (OFDM). The research also presents a novel rate scalable encoder structure that optimal selects a disparate but optimal pair of component codes given the channel conditions. A second part of the thesis considers the implementation of turbo Hybrid-ARQ in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI ) systems. A design for a single architecture for Type-I and Type-II turbo Hybrid-ARQ is suggested in addition to approaches for improving performance of the Soft-Output-Viterbi-Algorithm(SOVA) decoder core. The research also proposes a SOVA decoder architecture that exploits reliability information to select between the SOVA and bi-directional SOVA.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/234076
Date January 2005
CreatorsOteng-Amoako, Kingsley, Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW
PublisherAwarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Kingsley Oteng-Amoako, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/copyright

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