M. Rupf

IBM Research, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland

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Publications (5)7.7 Total impact

  • Article: Concatenated Reed-Solomon/convolutional coding for data transmission in CDMA-based cellular systems
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    ABSTRACT: A robust error control scheme for data transmission in CDMA-based cellular systems is proposed which employs outer Reed-Solomon codes concatenated with inner convolutional codes. The performance of this scheme is analyzed assuming nonperiodic random spreading sequences and a Rake receiver with perfect knowledge of the channel. In particular, a simple model for the memoryless inner coding channel that encompasses the effects of multiple access interference, self-noise and thermal noise is first derived. Using new tight upper bounds on bit- and symbol-error probabilities of convolutional codes over Nakagami, Rayleigh, and Rician fading multipath channels, the performance of the concatenated coding scheme is then evaluated. The Reed-Solomon/convolutional coding scheme has been adopted by the European RACE Project Code Division Testbed (CODIT) and implemented in an experimental testbed. The code design methodology, which has been used to specify the 9.6-, 64-, and 128-kbit/s data traffic channels of the CODIT testbed, is presented and the single-cell CDMA capacity is computed
    IEEE Transactions on Communications 11/1997; · 1.68 Impact Factor
  • Conference Proceeding: Performance of convolutionally coded coherent DS-CDMA systems in multipath fading
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    ABSTRACT: The performance of convolutionally coded DS-CDMA systems is analyzed assuming nonperiodic random spreading sequences, ideal interleaving and a RAKE receiver with perfect knowledge of the channel. In particular, a simple model for the memoryless coding channel that encompasses the effects of multiple access interference, self-noise and thermal noise is first derived. This coding channel model illustrates clearly how ideal channel state information is used at the receiver. Using new tight upper bounds on the bit error probability of convolutional codes over Nakagami, Rayleigh, and Rice fading multipath channels, the performance of convolutionally coded coherent DS-CDMA systems is then evaluated. Finally, the single-cell CDMA capacity is computed and the tradeoffs between performance and maximum number of simultaneous users in a cell are studied
    Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96. 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity; 12/1996
  • Article: On the search for good aperiodic binary invertible sequences
    J. Ruprecht, M. Rupf
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    ABSTRACT: For an aperiodic invertible sequence of length L, the optimality criterion is chosen to be the minimum noise enhancement factor of the corresponding aperiodic inverse filter. The noise enhancement factor is defined as the ratio of the noise energies at the outputs of the aperiodic inverse and the normalized matched filters of the sequence due to white noise at the filter inputs. Optimal binary sequences of length L⩽32 and optimal binary skew symmetric sequences of length 33⩽L⩽59 were found by exhaustive search. The search for near-optimal sequences is shown to have strong connections to the search for sequences with large products of Golay (1977) merit factor times the minimum of the energy density spectrum. Based on Legendre sequences and on Kronecker product sequences, long near-optimal binary sequences are found that have associated noise enhancement factors close to 1 dB
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 10/1996; · 3.01 Impact Factor
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    Article: Optimum sequence multisets for synchronous code-division multiple-access channels
    M. Rupf, J.L. Massey
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    ABSTRACT: It is shown that the sum capacity of the symbol-synchronous code-division multiple-access channel with equal average-input-energy constraints is maximized precisely by those spreading sequence multisets that meet Welch's lower bound on total squared correlation. It is further shown that the symmetric capacity of the channel determined by these same sequence multisets is equal to the sum capacity
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 08/1994; · 3.01 Impact Factor
  • Conference Proceeding: On the search and construction of good invertible binary sequences
    J. Ruprecht, M. Rupf
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    ABSTRACT: This paper presents exhaustive search results of binary sequences of length L⩽32 that provide small noise enhancement factors when filtered with their aperiodic inverse filters and describes two construction methods for longer such sequences
    Information Theory, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on; 08/1994