Title
The design of a rateless channel coding scheme for deep-space communication
Abstract
In this paper, a rateless channel coding scheme is proposed for deep-space communication. Unlike the traditional fixed-rate coding schemes, in our scheme the coding rate is not designed as a fixed value before transmission, but adaptive to the channel variations resulted from the dynamically varied transmission distance and complex atmospheric conditions. Specifically, a Raptor code which is provided by a cascade structure is adopted for the data transmission. The pre-code of Raptor code is encoded with a linear-time progressive edge-growth algorithm which avoids tedious calculations by matrix transformation. Moreover, based on a joint iterative decoding method, the output degree distribution of our Raptor code is optimized so as to obtain good decoding performances. Comparisons are provided with respect to the fixed-rate coding schemes by numerical simulation, which shows that our proposed rateless coding scheme has better performance and is adaptively capacity-approaching for the deep-space data transmission.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266524
2015 7th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Rateless code,deep-space communication,cascade coding structure,joint iterative decoding,degree distribution
Forward error correction,Telecommunications,Code rate,Data transmission,Computer science,Algorithm,Communication channel,Raptor code,Decoding methods,Channel capacity,Variable-length code,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2157-4952
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaolei Chen100.34
Chuangmu Yao200.34
Rui Dai34914.71