Abstract—Forward Error Correction (FEC) now plays an important role in many wireless transceivers because it helps increase link reliability and lower required transmit power. Expected features of a FEC solution are scalability, high coding-gain, low-complexity and transmit power efficiency. In this paper, we proposed a multi-mode error-correction solution which is based on split-concatenation of low-constraint convolutional code and Truncated-Iteration Layered-Decoding LDPC (TILD-LDPC) block code. The proposed FEC solution can offer many operation modes with different levels of error-correction performance and transmit power. Moreover, besides guaranteeing good BER performances, the proposed FEC approach is also a low-complexity error-correction solution by implementing low-complexity version of convolutional code and LDPC. From experimental results and theoretic arguments, we found that the proposed FEC solution is suitable to apply for Wireless Sensor Nodes.
 

Index Terms—Forward error correction, multi-mode, split-concatenation, wireless sensor nodes

Cite: Duc Phuc Nguyen, Thi Hong Tran, and Yasuhiko Nakashima, "A Multi-Mode Error-Correction Solution Based on Split-Concatenation for Wireless Sensor Nodes," Journal of Communications, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 130-136, 2017. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.12.2.130-136