Very simple BICM-ID using repetition code and extended mapping with doped accumulator

Abstract

This paper proposes very simple bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative detection (BICM-ID) as a spectrally efficient signal transmission scheme, where irregular repetition code and extended mapping with rate-1 doped accumulator (ACC) are combined to achieve a clear turbo-cliff. Doped ACC is used for close matching of the demapper and decoder's extrinsic information transfer curves. Although the proposed BICM-ID system is very simple, it can achieve excellent performances and completely eliminate bit-errorrate floor. An exemplifying result for extended non-Gray mapped 4-quadrature amplitude modulation symbol shows that with 0.916 bits/channel use, turbo-cliff happens at 1.27 dB away from the Shannon limit. © The Author(s) 2011.