Experiment and Performance Analysis on PXIe-Based Real-Time Terahertz Wireless Communication with LDPC Code

Abstract

Conventional baseband processing techniques for communication must be adapted to the specificities of terahertz channels. Currently, there is limited research on channel coding applicable to terahertz bands, particularly in terms of performing real-time tests that differentiate them from offline processing. This paper presents a test platform for a 300 GHz wireless communication system based on the PXIe platform. The experiment utilizes a high-performance, low-complexity serial scheduling approach with the Minimum Sum-Log Likelihood Ratio Belief Propagation (MS-LLR-BP) soft decision decoding algorithm to test point-to-point real-time line-of-sight communication for low-density parity-check (LDPC) code communication systems. The results indicate that the implementation of LDPC coding in QPSK terahertz wireless transmission systems results in a performance enhancement of approximately 25–55% in bit error rate (BER), demonstrating the excellent performance of LDPC codes against terahertz channel fading. This highlights their potential in future ultra-high-speed communication systems.