Adaptive-rate coding for frequency-hop communications over Rayleigh fading channels

  • Authors:
  • M. B. Pursley;C. S. Wilkins

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Because of the variability of the channels in frequency-hop wireless systems and networks, the performance of error-control coding can be improved by adapting the rate of the code to the channel conditions. In this paper, adaptive-rate error-control coding is investigated for slow frequency-hop communications with Reed-Solomon coding. Two methods are investigated that use decoder side information as a means for selecting the code rate. These methods are based on counts of errors and erasures, which are provided by the demodulator and the decoder. The performance of the adaptive-rate coding system is evaluated for channels with Rayleigh fading, partial-band interference, and thermal noise