Analysis and comparison of FEC and FEC-ARQ protection schemes based on RS and Raptor code

Pei Wang, Li Song, Songyu Yu, Libo Yang
October 2010
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Abstract

Four protection schemes based on RS and Raptor code as well as FEC and hybrid FEC-ARQ are analyzed and compared for erasure channels in this paper. RS code is a classic block channel code while Raptor code is a new kind of rateless code, which can produce a potentially infinite stream of packets. FEC and hybrid FEC-ARQ schemes based on RS and Raptor code are described and compared in detail. Then numeric analysis and experiments are conducted on these schemes in terms of several performance measures. The results demonstrate that Raptor code based schemes can effectively reduce coding complexity and FEC-ARQ protection mechanism can effectively increase channel utility.

Type
Conference paper
Publication
2010 International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing (WCSP)
"Encoding" "Decoding" "Receivers" "Conferences" "Bandwidth" "FEC" "Forward error correction" "hybrid FEC-ARQ" "Memory management" "Raptor code" "RS code"
Li Song
Li Song
Professor, IEEE Senior Member

Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, the Deputy Director of the Institute of Image Communication and Network Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Double-Appointed Professor of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Future Media Network, the Deputy Secretary-General of the China Video User Experience Alliance and head of the standards group.