On Cross-Layer Design of AMC Based on Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo Codes

Fotis Foukalas, Evangelos Zervas

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DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2010.33033                

Abstract

This paper extends the work on cross-layer design which combines adaptive modulation and coding at the physical layer and hybrid automatic repeat request protocol at the data link layer. By contrast with previous works on this topic, the present development and the performance analysis as well, is based on rate compatible punctured turbo codes. Rate compatibility provides incremental redundancy in transmission of parity bits for error correction at the data link layer. Turbo coding and iterative decoding gives lower packet error rate values in low signal-to-noise ratio regions of the adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) schemes. Thus, the applied cross-layer design results in AMC schemes can achieve better spectral efficiency than convolutional one while it retains the QoS requirements at the application layer. Numerical results in terms of spectral efficiency for both turbo and convolutional rate compatible punctured codes are presented. For a more comprehensive presentation, the performance of rate compatible LDPC is contrasted with turbo case as well as the performance complexity is discussed for each of the above codes.

Keywords

Cross-Layer Design, Adaptive Modulation and Coding, Rate-Compatible Punctured Turbo Codes, Hybrid ARQ, Codes Complexity

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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