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  • Research Article
  • Open Access

LDPC Code Design for Nonuniform Power-Line Channels

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing20072007:076146

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/76146

©  A. Sanaei and M. Ardakani. 2007

  • Received: 28 October 2006
  • Accepted: 1 May 2007
  • Published:

Abstract

We investigate low-density parity-check code design for discrete multitone channels over power lines. Discrete multitone channels are well modeled as nonuniform channels, that is, different bits experience various channel parameters. We propose a coding system for discrete multitone channels that allows for using a single code over a nonuniform channel. The number of code parameters for the proposed system is much greater than the number of code parameters in conventional channel. Therefore, search-based optimization methods are impractical. We first formulate the problem of optimizing the rate of an irregular low-density parity-check code, with guaranteed convergence over a general nonuniform channel, as an iterative linear programming which is significantly more efficient than search-based methods. Then we use this technique for a typical power-line channel. The methodology of this paper is directly applicable to all decoding algorithms for which a density evolution analysis is possible.

Keywords

  • Power Line
  • Code Design
  • LDPC Code
  • Channel Parameter
  • Density Evolution

Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2V4, Canada

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© A. Sanaei and M. Ardakani. 2007

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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