Improved decoding of Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometry codes
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Design of capacity-approaching irregular low-density parity-check codes
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Extrinsic information transfer functions: model and erasure channel properties
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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This paper presents and compares two iterative coded modulation techniques for deep-space optical communications using pulse-position modulation (PPM). The first code, denoted by SCPPM, consists of the serial concatenation of an outer convolutional code, an interleaver, a bit accumulator, and PPM. The second code, denoted by LDPC-PPM, consists of the serial concatenation of an LDPC code and PPM. We employ Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts for their analysis and design. Under conditions typical of a communications link from Mars to Earth, SCPPM is 1 dB away from capacity, while LDPC-PPM is 1.4 dB away from capacity, at a Bit Error Rate (BER) of approximately 10-5. However, LDPC-PPM lends itself naturally to low latency parallel processing in contrast to SCPPM.