This paper compares and analyzes two systems in the environment of multipath channels such as Rayleigh fading and underwater channel. The first combines polar codes which theoretically achieve the Shannon limit and deliver strong error-correction perf...
This paper compares and analyzes two systems in the environment of multipath channels such as Rayleigh fading and underwater channel. The first combines polar codes which theoretically achieve the Shannon limit and deliver strong error-correction performance even at short block lengths with OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). The second combines turbo equalization with polar codes. Simulation results show that, with five multipaths and a coding rate of 1/2 (block lengths 256 and 512), performance improves as the number of turbo-equalization iterations increases. With three iterations, this study observe an improvement of approximately 0.5 dB or more compared to a system that simply concatenates a BP(Belief Propagation) decoder with an equalizer under the same complexity. Furthermore, when comparing polar-coded OFDM systems with polar-coded turbo equalization systems, a structure with a decoder maximum inner iteration reduced to 20 and three rounds of turbo equalization was observed to have a complexity approximately 1.31 times higher than polar-coded OFDM. However, in terms of BER performance, it demonstrated approximately 0.8 dB better performance than a system using OFDM alone. Keywords : Multipath, OFDM, Polar code, Turbo Equalization