Soft Multilevel Slepian-Wolf Decoding in Systems Using Turbo Joint Decoding and Decompressing

It has been pointed out that Slepian-Wolf (SW) coding is efficient to compress data with side information available at the receiver. However, most papers assume that the compressed information is perfectly known to the receiver. In this paper, we consider more practical assumptions that the channel between the relay and the destination is not perfect and error protection need to be implemented. Accordingly, a soft Slepian-Wolf decoding structure is proposed. The new structure not only supports soft Slepian-Wolf decoding within one level, but it also allows soft information passing between different levels. We also consider the relationship between the codes for error protection and the codes for compression and propose a joint decoding and decompressing algorithm to further improve the performance.

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