Nexcode: Next Generation Uplink Coding Techniques
Marco Baldi, Massimo Bertinelli, Franco Chiaraluce, Pau Closas, Roberto Garello, Nicola Maturo, Mònica Navarro, José M. Palomo, Enrico Paolini, Stephan Pfletschinger, Pedro Freire da Silva, Simone, L., Jordi Vilà‐Valls · Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) · 2016
NEXCODE is a project promoted by the European Space Agency aimed at research design development and demonstration of a receiver chain for telecomm and links in space missions including the presence of new short low-density parity-check codes for error correction. These codes have excellent performance from the error rate viewpoint but also put new challenges as regards synchronization issues and implementation. In this paper after a short review of the results obtained through numerical simulations we present an overview of the breadboard designed for practical testing and the test-plan proposed for the verification of the breadboard and the validation of the new codes and novel synchronization techniques under relevant operation conditions.