Cooperative relaying with low-density lattice coding and joint iterative decoding

Low-density lattice codes (LDLCs) are known for their high decoding efficiency and near-capacity performance on point-to-point Gaussian channels. In this paper, we present a distributed LDLC-based cooperative relaying scheme for the multiple-access relay channel (MARC). The relay node decodes LDLC coded packets from two sources and forwards a network-coded combination to the destination. At the destination, a joint iterative decoding structure is designed to exploit the diversity gain as well as coding gain. For the LDLC-based network coding operation at the relay, we consider two alternative methods which offer a tradeoff between implementation complexity and performance, called superposition LDLC (S-LDLC) and modulo-addition LDLC (MA-LDLC). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can provide more diversity gain and up to 6.2 dB coding gain when compared with non-cooperative LDLC coding and uncoded network-coded transmission.

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