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  • Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Jordan Melzer (Communication Sciences Institute, USC)

    Mon, Aug 14, 2006 @ 10:00 AM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Jordan Melzer (Communication Sciences Institute, USC)TITLE: Low complexity turbo-like codesTHESIS ADVISOR: Keith Chugg (USC)ABSTRACT: Error-control coding is a key feature of most modern
    communications systems, allowing close to a factor of ten in increased
    receiver sensitivity. We explore two aspects of low-cost error-control
    code decoders. First we design single decoders that provide competitive
    performance-complexity trade-offs over a wide range of operation. We
    introduce a new class of codes, show design rules and design techniques
    for this class, and design new codes in this class able to give, from a
    single decoder, extremely good performance over a range of decoding
    effort, block sizes, and code rates and give close to no performance
    penalty when generating rate-compatible codewords.
    The flexibility and
    competitive performance-complexity profile
    of these decoder designs
    allows them to be good choices both for systems that support a range of
    operating conditions and those
    that don't.Next we explore decoders with hardware errors. We show that
    error-control code decoders that have faults in memory may exhibit very
    little performance degradation and suggest design techniques that
    virtually eliminate the performance loss from a single
    error.

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539 (10:00am)

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: michael neely

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