Performance analysis of short analog fountain codes

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Abbas, Rana;Shirvanimoghaddam, Mahyar;Huang, Tao;Li, Yonghui;Vucetic, Branka
Abstract

Analog fountain codes are a class of rateless codes that have been demonstrated to achieve near-capacity performance for asymptotically long blocks, without any channel state information at the transmitter side. Recently, a new design for these codes has been proposed aimed at improving its performance in the finite block length regime, dubbed short analog fountain codes (S-AFC). S-AFC was shown to score error rates orders of magnitude smaller than AFC for blocks of a few hundred bits long. S-AFC was also shown to achieve average block lengths close to the Polyanskiy-Poor and Verdu bound for high SNR and exhibits no error floors down to 10^-7. In this paper, we derive lower and upper bounds on the block error rate (BLER) of S-AFC. We verify these bounds through Monte Carlo simulations and provide all the proofs in the appendix.

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2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops

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978-1-7281-0960-2

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6

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Waikoloa, HI, USA

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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10.1109/GCWkshps45667.2019.9024699