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Efficient SOVA decoding and enhanced early termination mechanism based on new attenuation factors Ahmed A. Hamad; Hussain F. Jaafar; Hilal Al-Libawy
TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control) Vol 20, No 2: April 2022
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12928/telkomnika.v20i2.23164

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This paper proposes two attenuation factors (AF’s) to improve the performance of the soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) as well as to enhance the early termination mechanism in turbo decoding. The mean square difference between the systematic bipolar coded symbols and the a-posteriori information is used to estimate the first AF. The second AF is computed online for each iteration based on the correlation coefficient between the extrinsic and a-priori information instead of intrinsic information as customary to calculate in literature. The second factor is used in the early termination (ET) scheme which is practically useful to terminate iterations when there is no significant improvement is achieved. In addition, a method for offline computing the AF’s that cover a specific range of signal-to-noise power ratio is provided which results in a reduction of utilization and latency estimates with a shallow degradation in performance. The results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous related works by about 0.2 dB at bit error rate (BER) of 10-5 using interleaver depth of 512 and reducing the average number of iterations (ANI) by about 3 iterations.
A new approach for varied speed weigh-in-motion vehicle based on smartphone inertial sensors Ahmed A. Hamad; Yasseen Sadoon Atiya; Hilal Al-Libawy
IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) Vol 11, No 4: December 2022
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijai.v11.i4.pp%p

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Dynamic vehicle weight measuring, weigh-in-motion (WIM), is an important metric that can reflect significantly vehicle driving behaviour and in turn, it will affect both safety and traffic status. Several accurate (WIM) systems are developed and implemented successfully. These systems are using under road weighing sensor which are costly to implement. Moreover, it is costly and not very practical to embed a continuous weighing system in used cars. In this work, a low-cost varied-speed weigh-in-motion approach was suggested to continuously measuring vehicle load based on the response of smartphone sensors which is a reflection of vehicle dynamics. This approach can apply to any moving vehicle at any driving speed without the need for extra added hardware which makes it very applicable because smartphone is widely used device. The approach was tested through a six-trips experiment. Three capacities of load had been designed in this approach to be classified using a neural network classifier. The classification performance metrics are calculated and show an accuracy of 91.2%. This accuracy level is within error limits of existing WIM systems especially for high speed and proved the success of the suggested approach.
Efficient systematic turbo polar decoding based on optimized scaling factor and early termination mechanism Ahmed A. Hamad; Mohammed Taih Gatte; Laith Ali Abdul-Rahaim
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp629-637

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In this paper, an efficient early termination (ET) mechanism for systematic turbo-polar code (STPC) based on optimal estimation of scaling factor (SF) is proposed. The gradient of the regression line which best fits the distance between a priori and extrinsic information is used to estimate the SF. The multiplication of the extrinsic information by the proposed SF presents effectiveness in resolving the correlation issue between intrinsic and extrinsic reliability information traded between the two typical parallel concatenated soft-cancellation (SCAN) decoders. It is shown that the SF has improved the conventional STPC by about 0.3 dB with an interleaver length of 64 bits, and about 1 dB over the systematic polar code (SPC) at a bit error rate (BER) of . A new scheme is proposed as a stopping criterion, which is mainly based on the estimated value of SF at the second component decoder and the decoded frozen bits for each decoding iteration. It is shown that the proposed ET results in halving the average number of iterations (ANI) without adding considerable complexity. Moreover, the modified codes present comparable results in terms of BER to the codes that utilize fix number of iterations.