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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Near-capacity irregular variable length coding and irregular unity rate coding
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This paper proposes the Irregular Unity Rate Code, which allows serially-concatenated codes to achieve near-theoretical-limit reductions in wireless transmission power for the first time. This is shown experimentally to reduce the transmission power to within 0.04 dB of the theoretical limit – a 'new world-record'. This has widespread applicability, since serially-concatenated codes are employed throughout wireless communication. The concepts described in this paper featured in a Wiley-IEEE-Press book (Near Capacity Variable Length Coding) and have subsequently been adopted by leading researchers in the telecommunications area at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, including Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary.
