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Main Authors: Wu, Xiaowei, Yang, Lei, Qiu, Min, Han, Chong, Yuan, Jinhong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01685
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author Wu, Xiaowei
Yang, Lei
Qiu, Min
Han, Chong
Yuan, Jinhong
author_facet Wu, Xiaowei
Yang, Lei
Qiu, Min
Han, Chong
Yuan, Jinhong
contents This paper presents a new class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), namely half spatially coupled braided convolutional codes (HSC-BCCs) and half spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (HSC-PCCs). Different from the conventional SC-TCs, the proposed codes have simpler and deterministic coupling structures. Most notably, the coupling of HSC-BCCs is performed by re-encoding the whole coupling sequence in the component encoder of one time instant, rather than spreading the coupling bits to component encoders of multiple time instants. This simplification not only addresses the window decoding threshold loss issue in existing BCCs, but also allows the proposed codes to attain very close-to-capacity performance with a coupling memory as small as 2. Both theoretical and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the performance advantages of the proposed codes over existing spatially coupled codes.
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spellingShingle Half Spatially Coupled Turbo-Like Codes
Wu, Xiaowei
Yang, Lei
Qiu, Min
Han, Chong
Yuan, Jinhong
Information Theory
This paper presents a new class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), namely half spatially coupled braided convolutional codes (HSC-BCCs) and half spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (HSC-PCCs). Different from the conventional SC-TCs, the proposed codes have simpler and deterministic coupling structures. Most notably, the coupling of HSC-BCCs is performed by re-encoding the whole coupling sequence in the component encoder of one time instant, rather than spreading the coupling bits to component encoders of multiple time instants. This simplification not only addresses the window decoding threshold loss issue in existing BCCs, but also allows the proposed codes to attain very close-to-capacity performance with a coupling memory as small as 2. Both theoretical and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the performance advantages of the proposed codes over existing spatially coupled codes.
title Half Spatially Coupled Turbo-Like Codes
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01685