Abstract
Modern navigation satellite communication has the characteristic of high transmitting rate. To avoid bit errors in data transmission, low density parity check (LDPC) codes are widely recognized as efficient ways for navigation communication. Conventionally, the LDPC decoding is applied for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and degrades severely while facing the impulsive noise. However, navigation communication often suffers from impulsive interference due to the occurrence of high amplitude "spikes". At this time, the conventional Gaussian noise assumption is inadequate. The impulsive component of interference has been found to be significant which influences the reliability of transmitted information. Therefore the LDPC decoding algorithms for AWGN channel are not suitable for impulsive noise environments. Consider that LDPC codes over GF(q) perform better than binary LDPC in resisting burst errors for current navigation system, it is necessary to conduct research on LDPC codes over GF(q). In this paper, an optimized initialization by calculating posterior probabilities of received symbols is proposed for non-binary LDPC decoding on additive white Class A noise (AWAN) channel. To verify the performance of the proposed initialization, extensive experiments are performed in terms of convergence, validity, and robustness. Preliminary results demonstrate that the decoding algorithm with the optimized initialization for non-binary LDPC codes performs better than the competing methods and that of binary LDPC codes on AWAN channel.
Highlights
With the explosive development of communication technology, the new mobile communication systems, such as beyond fifth generation (B5G) and sixth generation (6G) systems, will suffer from severe challenges imposed by the requirement for heavy connection density and high efficiency [1]
The conventional decoding methods degrade severely while facing the impulsive noise since those methods acquire the posterior probability of received symbols by making use of the transition probability on additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. To tackle this problem, based on the BP decoding algorithm, we present an optimized initialization for low density parity check (LDPC) decoding over GF(q) on additive white Class A noise (AWAN) channel with series truncation
After introducing the optimized BP decoding of non-binary LDPC codes on AWAN channel, we investigate the characteristics of LLR on AWGN channel and AWAN channel with A = 0.1, Γ = 0.1
Summary
With the explosive development of communication technology, the new mobile communication systems, such as beyond fifth generation (B5G) and sixth generation (6G) systems, will suffer from severe challenges imposed by the requirement for heavy connection density and high efficiency [1]. Working in severe environments, such as underwater environment surrounded by acoustical noises or in the power industry, the decoder of non-binary LDPC codes is inevitably subject to impulsive interference, which causes poor reliability of transmitted information and even leads to communication failure. For navigation satellite communication, such spikes can be generated in atmosphere where lightning discharges in the vicinity of the receiver, or underwater environment where the ambient acoustical noises includes impulses due to noisy aquatic animals such as snapping shrimp [10,11,12,13]. We focus on non-binary LDPC codes decoding on additive white Class A noise (AWAN) channel and present an optimized initialization for decoding in this paper. The experimental results reveal that the optimized initialization has a significant effect on the decoding performance for non-binary LDPC codes on AWAN channel.
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