A hybrid ARQ scheme using LDPC codes with stochastic decoding

Stochastic decoding is a hardware and energy-efficient approach to implement iterative decoders. We use this decoding method in an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) scheme to improve the performance of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoders. We show that, aside from the simplicity in hardware impleme...

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Published in2015 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Kuo-Lun Huang, Gaudet, Vincent C., Salehi, Masoud
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2015
Subjects
Automatic repeat request
Automatic repeat request (ARQ)
Bit error rate
Decoding
Iterative decoding
low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes
stochastic computation
stochastic decoding
Stochastic processes
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Summary:Stochastic decoding is a hardware and energy-efficient approach to implement iterative decoders. We use this decoding method in an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) scheme to improve the performance of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoders. We show that, aside from the simplicity in hardware implementations, stochastic decoding results in improved error rate performance and requires fewer retransmissions than other iterative decoding algorithms when used in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) system. We present an analysis of the error rate improvement and decoding latency of the HARQ scheme using stochastic decoding. We also provide a criterion to efficiently allocate the available decoding cycles to the decoding attempts in the HARQ system in order to achieve lower error rates and less decoding latency.
DOI:10.1109/CISS.2015.7086427