Bit-Interleaved Coded OFDM With Iterative Decoding in Impulsive Noise

Bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) have recently been considered separately to improve the error performance and/or spectral efficiency of communication systems disturbed by impulsive noise, such as power-line communications. Given the advantages of these two techniques, this paper proposes a novel combination of them in one system. The key feature of the proposed system, termed bit-interleaved coded OFDM with iterative decoding (BI-COFDM-ID), is the iterative processing at the receiver where information exchange is carried out between the OFDM demodulator and the channel decoder. Structure and algorithms employed at the iterative receiver of BI-COFDM-ID are described in detail. The results show that BI-COFDM-ID outperforms all the previously proposed techniques at the high signal-to-noise-ratio region and, therefore, it is attractive for applications that require high spectral efficiency and low bit-error rate.