Near Capacity Irregular Turbo Code

The purpose of this study is to construct a near capacity Irregular-Turbo Code (I-TC) and to evaluate its performance over Gaussian channel. The methodology used to evaluate and measure the performance of the new design is by simulating the system by developing a software platform using MATLAB. The simulation carried out by implementing the system over different modulation schemes, different frame sizes, and different code rates in order to achieve a fair comparison between irregular turbo code and regular Turbo Code (TC). The simulation results showed that the Irregular Turbo Code with 64QAM modulation is capable of achieving a coding gain of 1.29 dB over its corresponding Turbo Code for a low Bit Error Rate (BER) 10−5, when used in a Gaussian noisy channel. Also, the Irregular Turbo Code designed in this paper, utilizes a single recursive Convolution encoder with short frame size of 5012 bits. The new designed codec can play an important role in many commercial applications such as Third-Generation (3G) wireless phones, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems, or Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN), etc.