Rate-compatible punctured serial concatenated convolutional codes

We propose and compare some good rate-compatible serial concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) families. To obtain rate-compatible SCCCs, the puncturing is limited to inner coded bits. However, and this is the novelty proposed, we do not limit the puncturing to inner parity bits only, but we extend it also to inner systematic bits, thus obtaining higher rate SCCCs (i.e., beyond the outer code rate). The two main applications of this technique are its use in hybrid ARQ/FEC schemes and to achieve unequal error protection (UEP) of an information sequence.

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