LT码新型度分布及其在电力线通信中的应用

Luby变换(Luby Transform,LT)码作为信道编码应用于电力线通信(Power Line Communication,PLC)，可实现电信号的可靠传输。度分布对LT码编译码性能的影响至关重要。为了得到更优的度分布，首先调整二进制指数分布(Binary Exponential Distribution,BED)中的度数比例，获得一种译码性能更优的改进的二进制指数分布(Improved BED,IBED)。然后，根据IBED在冗余度较小时译码成功率高，而冗余度增大后鲁棒孤子分布(Robust Soliton Distribution,RSD)的译码性能表现更佳的特点，通过求和归一化的方式将IBED与RSD两种度分布的优势进行有机结合，提出一种新型二进制鲁棒孤子分布(Binary RSD,BRSD)。仿真结果表明，与其他方法及传统的RSD相比，采用新度分布进行LT编码，可明显降低译码开销，并节约编译码耗时。将新型度分布应用于基于LT码的PLC系统中，能有效地抑制PLC信道中各种噪声对电信号的干扰，并提高通信效率。     

Codes of Conduct in Subcontracting Networks: A Labour Law Perspective

In the past ten years, many European companies organised into subcontracting networks have decided to adopt codes of conduct to regulate labour relations and to ensure the respect of fundamental social rights. This paper first determines the context and the issues to be addressed by codes of conduct within networks of companies, and second analyses the terms under which they can be implemented. The paper argues that codes of conduct can complement the standards developed by States, the European Union or the social partners, but that steps should be taken in order to avoid that these texts replace the existing labour law.     

Turbo码解码过程中的加权算法

本文通过调整迭代解码过程中系统位接收值的加权系数，提出了一种Turbo码加权迭代解码算法。该算法改变了迭代运算后Turbo码解码器输出软值中系统位接收值信息和它的外部估计信息的比重，使Turbo码无论在低信噪比或是在高信噪比时均具有优良的纠错性能。仿真结果显示，采用Turbo码加权迭代解码算法，不仅能提高Turbo码的收敛速度，而且能进一步降低Turbo码解码时的地板值，使Turbo码的比特误码率在高、低信噪比时都能够得到进一步改善。     

Board governance and corporate performance

We examine the link between the monitoring capacity of the board and corporate performance of UK listed firms. We also investigate how firms use the flexibility offered by the voluntary governance regime to make governance choices. We find a strong positive association between the board governance index we construct and firm operating performance. Our results imply that adherence to the board‐related recommendations of the UK Corporate Governance Code strengthens the board's monitoring capacity, potentially helping mitigate agency problems, but that investors do not value it correspondingly. Moreover, in contrast to prior UK findings suggesting efficient adoption of Code recommendations, we find that firms at times use the Code flexibility opportunistically, aiming to decrease the monitoring capacity of the board, which is followed by subsequent underperformance. This finding questions the effectiveness of the voluntary approach to governance regulation followed in the UK and in many countries around the world.     

Strategies for Improving Codes of Ethics Implementation in Construction Organizations

It is necessary to reconsider the assumptions upon which the process of implementing compliance with ethical programs rests, in both theoretical and practical terms. These assumptions should hinge on organizational enablers that allow embeddedness of codes of ethics in the web of an organization's processes. This article sets out to describe an approach that will facilitate implementation of codes of ethics in construction organizations and a comprehensive literature survey approach is adopted to achieve this. The paper equally employs the application of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model as a tool to stimulate ethical behavior in an organization, with the focus on the enabler criterion of the model. The authors discuss organizational enablers in relation to the implementation of ethical codes. The study demonstrates how ethics can be managed in an organization by proposing a framework to enhance codes of ethics embeddedness in the web of an organization. The paper indicates current research gaps and future opportunities for both academics and practitioners.     

采用喷泉码的无线协同多跳信息累积广播协议

为提高无线多跳广播的能量效率,提出了采用喷泉码的协同多跳信息累积广播 协议：令注水速率最大的节点进行发送,其发送功率由传输速率和注水速率决定。当有接收 节点成功接收时,再由更新后注水速率最大的节点发送。各发送节点采用不同的喷泉码进行 编码,使接收节点获得复用增益,并且节点可以接收可靠传输范围以外的信息并进行累积直 至成功译码。根据节点是否掌握全局网络信息,给出了集中式信息累积启发算法和分布式信 息累积算法,并且将本协议与现有的能量累积协议进行了比较,仿真结果表明所提协 议在能量效率上有较大的提高。     

Turbo码的Taylor-Log_MAP译码算法

以Turbo码基本理论和算法为基础,依据无线信息传输的实际要求和Taylor级数的基 本原理,提出了一种Turbo码的Taylor-Log-MAP高效译码算法。该算法对基本的Log-MAP 算法中K运算利用Taylor级数进行展开,针对实际的信道需求对展开式进行截断,实现了Tur bo码 的最佳译码。与传统的对数域最大后验概率译码算法相比,该算法基本保持了优良的译码 性能,同时避免了复杂的对数运算,减小了运算量。仿真结果表明,与现 有的RS码性能相比,使用Turbo码可以获取5 dB的信噪比增益。     

利用ACE值构造QC-LDPC码

为进一步提升中短码长下准循环低密度奇偶校验(Quasi-cyclic Low-density Parity-check,QC-LDPC) 码的纠错性能,提出了一种综合短环数目和环连通性的QC-LDPC码构造方法。首先,采用Golomb规则构造QC-LDPC码,对基矩阵中的部分元素进行替换预处理,初步降低短环数目;其次,采用所提的利用近似环外信息度（Approximate Cycle Extrinsic message degree,ACE）的消环掩模算法来优化QC-LDPC码,使得掩模后的校验矩阵具有较大的ACE平均值,最终完成QC-LDPC码的构造。该构造方法简单、通用性强,在短环数目和连通性间进行了平衡。与只考虑减少短环数目、增大围长等方法相比,该方法构造的QC-LDPC码有更加优异的纠错性能。