Redesign of Channel Codes for Joint Source-Channel Coding Systems over One-Dimensional Inter-Symbol-Interference Magnetic Recording Channels

Abstract

Although the joint source-channel coding (JSCC) system based on double protograph low-density parity-check (DP-LDPC) codes has been shown to possess excellent error performance over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, it cannot perform well over one-dimensional inter-symbol-interference (OD-ISI) magnetic recording channels. In this study, a new JSCC system with a three-stage serially concatenated framework of Turbo equalization is firstly proposed for OD-ISI magnetic recording channels. Then, a modified joint protograph extrinsic information transfer (M-JPEXIT) algorithm is put forward to analyze the convergence-performance of the proposed system. By applying the M-JPEXIT algorithm, the channel codes are redesigned for this system to improve the error performance. Both the M-JPEXIT analysis and the bit-error-rate (BER) simulation results show the performance improvement of the proposed channel codes, especially in the water-fall region.