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    Performance of Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes over the Underwater Wireless Optical Channel with Strong Turbulence and Pointing Errors
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Padala, S.K.; D'Souza, J.
    The major problems in an underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) link are turbulence induced fading and pointing errors. In this paper, we have investigated the bit error rate (BER) performance of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) coded horizontal UWOC link over a strong turbulent channel model with pointing errors. The performance of this link for different channel and code parameters has been studied using simulations. It has been observed that a rate 1/2 ARJA protograph based SC-LDPC code with graph lifting factor of 256 gives a coding gain of 47 dB at a BER of 10^-4 for strong turbulence channel model with pointing errors. An analytical BER expression for an uncoded UWOC link under strong turbulence with pointing errors for the On-Off Keying modulation technique has been derived. A multidimensional protograph based extrinsic information transfer algorithm has been developed to obtain the decoding thresholds for different channel parameters and code rates. We have also studied the SC-LDPC coded vertical UWOC link performance for some specific strong turbulence channel parameters with pointing errors and observed that as the link length increases from 20 m to 40 m , the performance gap between the hypothetical and cascaded channel models increases from 1.1 dB to 5.5 dB. © 2013 IEEE.
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    Performance of spatially coupled LDPC codes over underwater acoustic communication channel
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Padala, S.K.; D'Souza, J.
    Underwater acoustic (UWA) channel is complex because of its multipath environment, Doppler shift and rapidly changing characteristics. Many of the UWA communication- based applications demand high data rates and reliable communication. The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is very effective in UWA channels and provides high data rate with low equalization complexity. It is a challenging task to achieve reliability over these channels. The low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes give a better error performance than turbo codes, for UWA channels. The spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes have been shown to have the capacity-achieving performance over terrestrial communication. In this paper, we have studied by simulation, the performance of protograph based SC-LDPC codes over shallow water acoustic environment with a communication range of 1000 m and channel bandwidth of 10 KHz. Our results show that SC-LDPC codes give 1 dB performance improvement over LDPC codes at a Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10-3 for the same latency constraints. © 2020 IEEE.