Bandwidth Aware FEC Algorithms for Wireless Communication Systems
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Date
2013
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IISTE
Abstract
Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes used by receivers to correct transmission errors without retransmission
add a considerable amount of redundant bits to data bits. The addition of redundant bits lowers the overall
network throughput, thus increasing the demand for more required bandwidth. In this paper we investigate and
discuss various techniques used in FEC and show their effects to data communication in terms of bandwidth
utilization. Additionally we propose improvement of (2, 1, 2) Convolutional encoder to (3, 2, 3) encoder. The
proposed improvements increase the code rate from 1/2 to 2/3 hence reducing error control information and
increasing bit rate. The received codeword can be decoded by Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithm
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A research article was published by Control Theory and Informatics Vol.3, No.3, 2013
Keywords
Bandwidth, FEC, Convolutional Codes, Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm