Análise de desempenho de códigos concatenados em canais AWGN e com multipercursos: uma abordagem baseada em transmissão de vídeo em 4K codificado em H.264

Abstract

In the process of digital transmission the communication channel inserts a series of imperfections in the information transmitted. In order to improve the quality of digital multimedia broadcasting, a number of technologies, such as DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial) and DVB-T2 (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial-2nd Generation) employing channel coding techniques have been developed. Within this context, channel coding techniques are of great importance because they minimize the probability of error during the transmission of the information. Thus it becomes important to evaluate the performance of the channel encoders. This dissertation performs a comparative analysis of the concatenated RS-CONV and BCH-LDPC encoders (They are implemented in Digital TV) over the AWGN and Rayleigh channels; Both in terms of BER, as well as in terms of video quality through the PSNR and SSIM metrics. In simulations over the AWGN channel the concatenated pair BCH-LDPC obtained the best performance in conjunction with the QPSK modulation, reaching the value of BER equal 0 when 𝐸𝑏/𝑁0 equals 1 dB. In the Rayleigh channel simulations, the BCH-LDPC association with the QPSK modulation presented the best results, reaching the BER equal 0 from 𝐸𝑏/𝑁0 equal 3 dB. In the video quality evaluation the BCHLDPC concatenated pair showed a superiority over the RS-CONV in the studied channels, in such a way that it conferred an increase (gain) on the mean of the PSNR in relation to the RS-CONV, that for the channel AWGN was approximately 2.2 dB, 6.4 dB and 6.7 dB, respectively for QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM. In the Rayleigh channel the values were approximately 3.9 dB, 4.2 dB and 1.6 dB, respectively for QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM. To confirm the results, another analysis is performed for a given band of the video, showing an increase in the mean of the results of the BCH-LDPC in relation to the RS-CONV, which for the AWGN channel was 15.8 dB for QPSK; 22.23 dB for 16-QAM and 14.3 dB for 64-QAM. While for Rayleigh channel the increase was 16.8 dB, 10.3 dB and 1.4 db, respectively, for QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM.