Bit error rate analysis of coded OFDM for digital audio broadcasting system, employing parallel concatenated convolutional turbo codes

In this paper we present a study of Bit Error Rate (BER), for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system, employing Coded OFDM with different channel coding schemes. Analysis is carried out for convolutional coded and turbo coded data in an Additive White Gaussian Channel (AWGN) based on different constraint lengths and code generator polynomials used for coding. A comparative study on the computational complexity is also done by applying an audio signal and measuring the data processing time per frame, on computers with different processor speeds. It is shown that a coding gain of approximately 6 dB is achieved using turbo coding when compared to convolutional coding, at a cost of higher computational complexity.