Study of LDPC Coded SFH System with Partial-Band Interference

Chao Gong, Manxi Wang, Daoxing Guo, Xiaofei Pan

College of communications engineering PLA University of Science &Technology, China.
The State Key Laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environmental Effects on Electronics&Information System, China.

DOI: 10.4236/cn.2013.53B2052                

Abstract

The application of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code in the anti-interference systems has drawn an increasing attention, due to its admiring performance which is very close to the theory limit. This paper focuses on a LDPC encoded slow frequency hopping (SFH) communication system with partial-band interference. Firstly, a modified soft- decision algorithm based on the utilization of interference information is proposed, and its performance is compared with some other soft-decision methods. Secondly, with numerical simulation, the influence of code rate, code length and the number of symbols per hops on the performance of the system with partial band noise interference is illustrated and examined in detail. Considering the great influence of hops per symbol on the performance, interleaver should be used and its influence on the performance is further examined by simulation. Finally, some constructive advises for the design of LDPC coded SFH system are given. Simulation results show that, with a reasonable design, the SFH system with LDPC code could achieve a desirable performance.

Keywords

LDPC; SFH; Soft-decision; Partial-band Interference

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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