Anytime spatially coupled codes for relay channel

Abstract

In this paper, we study linear anytime codes for the half duplex relay channel. We design anytime codes based on spatially coupled repeat-accumulate (SC-RA) codes. Through finite-length analysis and simulation results, we find that anytime SC-RA codes perform better than existing anytime codes. Furthermore, anytime SC-RA codes allow simple encoding compared to existing anytime spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Based on SC-RA codes, we design a bilayer anytime structure suitable for relaying networks with the decode-and-forward strategy. Using asymptotic analysis, we show that the proposed code structure achieves desired anytime properties.