CDM-600L Satellite Modem
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Forward Error Correction Options
MN/CDM600L.IOM
7–7
The Rate 7/8 TPC is extremely powerful, offering performance very close to the original
Rate 3/4 TPC, but using 15% less bandwidth. Note also that the Rate 0.95 TPC adds just
5% FEC overhead, but yields almost identical coding gain to Rate 1/2 Viterbi at a BER of
1 x 10
-7
. Below is a listing of all the available TPC modes and rates in the CDM-600L, as
at April 2002:
Table 7-5. Available TPC Modes
Code Rate/Modulation
Data Rate Range
Rate 21/44 BPSK
4.8 kbps to 3.2 Mbps
(to 4.77 Mbps with High Rate Turbo card)
Rate 5/16 BPSK
4.8 kbps to 2.048 Mbps
(to 3.12 Mbps with High Rate option, but
currently
unavailable)
Rate 1/2 QPSK/Offset QPSK
4.8 kbps to 9.54 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
Rate 3/4 QPSK/Offset QPSK
7.2 kbps to 5.0 Mbps
(to 15 Mbps with High Rate Turbo card)
Rate 3/4 8-PSK
10.8 kbps to 5.0 Mbps
(to 20 Mbps with High Rate Turbo card)
Rate 3/4 16-QAM
14.4 kbps to 5.0 Mbps
(to 20 Mbps with High Rate Turbo card)
Rate 7/8 QPSK/Offset QPSK
8.4 kbps to 17.5 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
Rate 7/8 8-PSK
12.6 kbps to 20 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
Rate 7/8 16-QAM
16.8 kbps to 20 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
Rate 0.95 QPSK/Offset QPSK
9.1 kbps to 18.88 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
Rate 0.95 8-PSK
13.6 kbps to 20 Mbps
(High Rate Turbo card only)
7.6.3 End-to-End
Processing
Delay
In many cases, FEC methods that provide increased coding gain do so at the expense of
increased processing delay. However, with TPC, this increase in delay is very modest.
The table below shows, for the CDM-600L, the processing delays for the major FEC
types, including the three TPC modes:
Table 7-6. Turbo Product Coding processing delay comparison
FEC Mode (64 kbps data rate)
End-to-end delay, ms
Viterbi, Rate 1/2
12
Sequential, Rate 1/2
74
Viterbi Rate 1/2 + Reed Solomon
266
Sequential Rate 1/2 + Reed Solomon
522
Turbo Product Coding, Rate 3/4
47
Turbo Product Coding, Rate 21/44, BPSK
64
Turbo Product Coding, Rate 5/16, BPSK
48
Turbo Product Coding, Rate 7/8
245 *
Turbo Product Coding, Rate 0.95
69
Note that in all cases, the delay is inversely proportional to data rate, so for 128 kbps, the
delay values would be half of those shown above. It can be seen that the concatenated
Reed-Solomon cases increase the delay significantly (due mainly to interleaving/de-
interleaving), while the TPC cases yield delays which are less than or equal to Sequential
decoding.
*
A larger block is used for the Rate 7/8 code, which increases decoding delay.
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