RT Journal Article T1 Flexible channel coding approach for short-length codewords A1 Hernaez, Mikel A1 Crespo, Pedro M. A1 Del Ser, Javier AB This letter introduces a channel coding design framework for short-length codewords which can achieve lower error floor than previous approaches. The proposed code is based on combining convolutional coding with a q-ary linear combination and unequal energy allocation. Simulation results suggest that for very low Bit Error Rates (BER) the proposed system will exhibit lower error floors than previous approaches, with a small performance penalty at mid-range BERs. On the other hand, when selecting an error floor higher than the previous approaches, the loss in performance at mid-range BERs is negligible. SN 1089-7798 YR 2012 FD 2012 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3082 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3082 LA eng NO Hernaez , M , Crespo , P M & Del Ser , J 2012 , ' Flexible channel coding approach for short-length codewords ' , IEEE Communications Letters , vol. 16 , no. 9 , 6259797 , pp. 1508-1511 . https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2012.073112.121295 NO Manuscript received June 12, 2012. The associate editor coordinating the review of this letter and approving it for publication was M. Lentmaier. This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation through the COMONSENS (CSD200800010) and COSIMA (TEC2010-19545-C04-02) projects. M. Hernaez and P. M. Crespo are with CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), 20009 San Sebastian, Spain (e-mail: {mhernaez, pcrespo}@ceit.es). J. Del Ser is with TECNALIA, 48170 Zamudio, Spain (e-mail: javier.delser@tecnalia.com). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.073112.121295 DS TECNALIA Publications RD 1 ago 2024