{"id":390,"date":"2018-09-09T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-reynal.ensea.fr\/?page_id=390"},"modified":"2023-06-11T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T16:28:20","slug":"estimation-of-very-low-ber-for-iterative-decoders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/?page_id=390","title":{"rendered":"Estimation of very low BER for iterative decoders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With&nbsp;PhD student Shakar Kakakhail we have introduced a&nbsp; new simulation algorithm for the estimation of very low BER of LDPC codes iterative decoders. This work is based on an interdisciplinary approach that leverages common simulation algorithms&nbsp; in statistical physics of spin systems, namely the so-called multicanonical &#8220;flat histogram&#8221; algorithm. It is part of a research topic on simulations of rare events I initiated after my PhD.<\/p>\n<p>This research was funded by a CIFRE&nbsp;contract with ST Microelectronics.<\/p>\n<p>Publication linked to the project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Shahkar Kakakhail, Sylvain Reynal, David Declercq, Vincent Heinrich. An efficient pseudo-codeword search algorithm for Belief Propagation decoding of LDPC codes.&nbsp;<i>International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications &amp; Workshops, 2009.<\/i>, Oct 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia. pp.1-5, 2010,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ICUMT.2009.5345453\"><span class=\"s2\">\u3008<\/span>10.1109\/ICUMT.2009.5345453<span class=\"s2\">\u3009<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-00540492\"><span class=\"s2\">\u3008<\/span>hal-00540492<span class=\"s2\">\u3009<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Shahkar Kakakhail, Sylvain Reynal, David Declercq, Vincent Heinrich. Efficient performance evaluation of Forward Error Correcting codes.&nbsp;<i>11th IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communications Systems<\/i>, Nov 2008, Guangzhou, China. pp.263-267, 2008,<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Shahkar Kakakhail, Sylvain Reynal, David Declercq, Vincent Heinrich. Fast Simulation for the Performance Evaluation of LDPC Codes using Fast Flat Histogram Method.&nbsp;<i>IEEE Sarnoff Symposium<\/i>, 2008, Princeton, United States. pp.1-5, 2008,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/SARNOF.2008.4520050\"><span class=\"s2\">\u3008<\/span>10.1109\/SARNOF.2008.4520050<span class=\"s2\">\u3009<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-00512276\"><span class=\"s2\">\u3008<\/span>hal-00512276<span class=\"s2\">\u3009<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With&nbsp;PhD student Shakar Kakakhail we have introduced a&nbsp; new simulation algorithm for the estimation of very low BER of LDPC codes iterative decoders. This work is based on an interdisciplinary approach that leverages common simulation algorithms&nbsp; in statistical physics of spin systems, namely the so-called multicanonical &#8220;flat histogram&#8221; algorithm. It is part of a research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/?page_id=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estimation of very low BER for iterative decoders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":909,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions\/915"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynal.etis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}