학술논문

Using channel correlation to improve decoding - ORBGRAND-AI
Document Type
Conference
Source
GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE. :3585-3590 Dec, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Correlation
Impedance matching
Redundancy
Receivers
Ultra reliable low latency communication
Decoding
Reliability
GRAND
soft input
correlation
interleavers
URLLC
Language
ISSN
2576-6813
Abstract
To meet the Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) needs of modern applications, there have been significant advances in the development of short error correction codes and corresponding soft detection decoders. A substantial hindrance to delivering low-latency is, however, the reliance on interleaving to break up omnipresent channel correlations to ensure that decoder input matches decoder assumptions. Consequently, even when using short codes, the need to wait to interleave data at the sender and de-interleave at the receiver results in significant latency that acts contrary to the goals of URLLC. Moreover, interleaving provably reduces capacity in channels with correlation, so that potential decoding performance is degraded. Here we introduce a variant of Ordered Reliability Bits Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (ORBGRAND), which we call ORBGRAND-Approximate Independence (ORBGRAND-AI), a soft-detection decoder that can decode any moderate redundancy code and overcomes the limitation of existing decoding paradigms by leveraging channel correlations and circumventing the need for interleaving. By leveraging correlation, not only is latency reduced, but error correction performance can be enhanced by multiple dB, while decoding complexity is also reduced, offering one potential solution for the provision of URLLC.