Spatially-coupled LDPC codes for decode-and-forward relaying of two correlated sources over the BEC

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1324-1337

  Schwandter, Stefan ^a   Graell I Amat, Alexandre ^b   Matz, Gerald ^c  

^a Ametek   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Binary erasure channel; cooperative communications; correlated sources; decode and forward; distributed coding; relay channel; spatially coupled low density parity check codes; threshold saturation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CODING; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC RELAYS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

BINARY ERASURE CHANNEL; CORRELATED SOURCES; DECODE-AND-FORWARD; DISTRIBUTED CODING; LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK (LDPC) CODES; RELAY CHANNELS; THRESHOLD SATURATIONS;

NETWORK CODING;

EID: 84899961756     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.020514.130317     Document Type: Article

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