Error Control Coding for B3G/4G Wireless Systems: Paving the Way to IMT-Advanced Standards

Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

1. Coding (Gerhard Bauch, Claude Berrou, David Declercq, Aledandre Graell I. Amat, Youssouf Ould-Cheikh-Mouhamedou, Yannick Saouter, Jossy Sayir, and Marcos B. S. Tavares).

1.1 General Code Types.

1.2 Designing Code Based on Graphs.

1.3 Pseudorandom Designs.

1.4 Repeat Accumulate Codes.

1.5 Binary versus Nonbinary.

1.6 Performance Results of Nonbinary LDPC Codes.

1.7 Three-Dimensional (3D) Turbo Codes.

1.8 Conclusions.

2. Decoding (Moshe Ran, Carlos De Segovia, and Omer Ran).

2.1 Algebraic Soft-Decision (ASD) and Reliability-Based Decoders.

2.2 Graph versus Trellis Decoding Algorithms.

3. Incremental Redundancy for Coding (Stefania Sesia and Charly Pouliat).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Retransmission Protocols (ARQ).

3.3 HARQ Schemes.

3.4 Design of Hybrid ARQ Type II.

3.5 Code Design.

3.6 Generalization of the Mutual Information Evolution for Incremental Redundancy Protocols.

3.7 ARQ/HARQ in the Standards.

3.8 Conclusions.

4. Architecture and Hardware Requirements (Frank Kienle).

4.1 Turbo Decoder Implementation.

4.2 LDPC Decoder Architectures.

5. Turbo-Principle Extensions (Isabelle Siaud, Ming Jiang, Anne-Marie Ulmer-Moll, Maryline Hélard, Thierry Lestable, and Carlos De Segovia).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 From Turbo Code to Advanced Iterative Receivers.

5.3 Turbo-Based Interleaving Techniques.

5.4 Turbo-MIMO Techniques.

5.5 Conclusions.

6. Standardization (Marie-Hélène Hamon, Thierry Lestable, and Isabelle Siaud).

6.1 3GPP Systems: UMTS and LTE.

6.2 IEEE 802.16/WiMAX.

6.3 IEEE 802.1 1n.

6.4 Satellite (DVB-RCS, DVB-S2).

6.5 Wireless Rural Area Network: The IEEE802.22 standard [IEEE802_22].

6.6 Others.

Index.