turbo coded ofdm with large number of subcarriers涡轮与大量的副载波编码ofdm.pdf

Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 2012, 3, 161-168 161 /10.4236/jsip.2012.32021 Published Online May 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsip) Turbo Coded OFDM with Large Number of Subcarriers Spyridon K. Chronopoulos, Giorgos Tatsis, Panos Kostarakis Physics Department, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. Email: schrono@cc.uoi.gr, gtatsis@grads.uoi.gr, kostarakis@uoi.gr Received January 15th, 2012; revised February 20th, 2012; accepted March 18th, 2012 ABSTRACT Wireless communication systems have greatly advanced during the last years. A significant contributor in these sys- tems’ performance has been Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). Since its invention, it is considered to be a technological leap. This leap in splitting an information stream in multiple frequency carriers has been adapted by various scientists working on the development of wireless systems. Moreover, as OFDM presented excellent toler- ance of channel fading and noise signals, the evolvement in terms of speed and reliability was consequent, because only a small stream of information is lost due to noise effects. OFDM along with the knowledge that Turbo codes is another excellent scheme of reducing BER, has triggered us to expand our research. So, we experimented in simulation level not only in joining OFDM with Turbo Codes but even in finding a better Turbo scheme compared to a typical PCCC, SCCC and a Convolutional encoder with Viterbi decoder. As the last goal has already been accomplished, in this paper is presented the new OFDM system consisted of our Turbo scheme. The analysis of the previous system took into con- sideration the effects of an AWGN channel. Also, this noise analysis was conducted using a simulation platform with specific attributes such as transmitting and receiving fixed number of subcarriers (2048 carriers aft