Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) with nested LDPC codes
Inspired by the compute-and-forward scheme from Nazer and Gastpar, a novel multiple-access scheme introduced by Zhu and Gastpar makes use of nested lattice codes and sequential decoding of linear combinations of codewords to recover the individual messages. This strategy, coined compute-forward multiple access (CFMA), provably achieves points on the dominant face of the multiple-access capacity region while circumventing the need of time sharing or rate splitting. For a two-user multiple-access channel (MAC), we propose a practical procedure to design suitable codes from off-the-shelf LDPC codes and present a sequential belief propagation decoder with complexity comparable with that of point-to-point decoders. We demonstrate the potential of our strategy by comparing several numerical evaluations with theoretical limits.
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Sula, E., Zhu, J., Pastore, A., Lim, S. H., & Gastpar, M. C. (2017). Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) with nested LDPC codes. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2017.8007067
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| Event name | Event place | Event date |
Aachen, Germany | June 25-30, 2017 | |