Ripple design of LT codes for AWGN channel

Abstract—In this paper we present an analytical framework for designing LT codes in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. We show that some of the analytical results from the binary erasure channel (BEC) also hold in AWGN channels with a slight modification. This enables us to apply the ripple-based design approach, which until now has only been used in the BEC. LT codes designed by this way show promising performance which is near the Shannon limit even with short codewords.In this paper, we present an analytical framework for designing LT codes in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. We show that some of analytical results from binary erasure channels (BEC) also hold in AWGN channels with slight modifications. This enables us to apply a ripple-based design approach, which until now has only been used in the BEC. LT codes designed by this way show promising performance which is near the Shannon limit even with short codewords