A full-diversity joint network-channel code construction for cooperative communications

Abstract

Cooperative communications is a well known technique to yield transmit diversity in a multi-user environment. Network coding can increase the spectral efficiency in networks. These two techniques can be combined to achieve a double diversity order for a maximum coding rate Rc = 23 on the Multiple Access Relay Channel (MARC), where two sources share a common relay in their transmission to the destination. However, codes have to be carefully designed to obtain the intrinsic channel diversity. Up till now, no full-diversity capacity achieving code for the MARC at a coding rate Rc = 23 has been published. We present a strategy to produce excellent low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with rate 23, i.e., exhibiting full-diversity and operating close to the outage probability limit. Simulation of the word error rate performance of the new proposed family of LDPC codes for the MARC confirms the full-diversity.

Publication
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 20th IEEE International symposium, Proceedings