Physical Layer Packet Coding: Inter-Block Cooperative Coding for 5G

5G sets stringent requirement on delay, which means large packets have to be segmented into shorter ones. However, the gain of turbo coding can be severely degraded due to short code size. In this paper, a novel coding and encoding scheme is proposed to obtain high coding gain under short size. The idea is to encode multiple short code blocks cooperatively to obtain a long code size. In the process of encoding, an XOR operation is conducted on certain parts of previously encoded blocks to introduce correlation. The mechanism of successive interference cancelation (SIC) receiver is applied in the decoding procedure and each code block utilizes the extrinsic information from the correlated parts from other code blocks. The scheme incurs no extra delays at reduced complexity. Simulation results show the scheme can yield equivalent or better performance than using traditional turbo code on long code block.