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The Construction of Nonlinear Block Codes for the Enhanced WWVB Broadcast


Abstract:

Nonlinear channel codes are employed to protect two information fields that are related to the daylight saving time (DST) and leap second notifications within the enhance...Show More

Abstract:

Nonlinear channel codes are employed to protect two information fields that are related to the daylight saving time (DST) and leap second notifications within the enhanced WWVB broadcast format. The general codebook design criteria and the construction of these codes using integer linear program (ILP) is formulated. Specifically, two different variations are presented: i) minimizing the union bound of probability of word error (PWE), which is a tighter bound but has high computational complexity and ii) minimizing an analytical closed form approximation to the PWE, which has much lower complexity but is a looser bound on the exact PWE. By leveraging the highly non-uniform a-priori probabilities of the different messages being transmitted in these two fields, the proposed nonlinear codes provide coding gains of about 2-3 dB in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). When compared to checksum codes with the same rate, the nonlinear codes offer performance advantages of about 1-2 dB for the DST notification field. In the presence of impulsive noise, simulations and analysis show that the probability of word error when employing the proposed nonlinear code is lower by many orders of magnitude compared with that of the uncoded system.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ( Volume: 20, Issue: 3, March 2021)
Page(s): 1714 - 1726
Date of Publication: 10 November 2020

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