Design of improved Luby transform codes with decreasing ripple size and feedback

In this study, the design of improved Luby transform codes with decreasing ripple size (LTC‐DRS) with feedback is presented. Under the proposed design, a new degree distribution algorithm named generalised degree distribution algorithm (GDDA) is proposed, which can achieve arbitrary ripple size revolution accurately. On the basis of GDDA, an accurate ripple size revolution based on binomial fitting is proposed, which can keep the ripple size to a suitable value throughout the decoding process. Furthermore, the authors introduce the feedback and propose a shifted ripple size revolution to diversify the degree values. The improved LTC‐DRS with feedback is evaluated and compared with the existing schemes. The simulation results demonstrate that it outperforms other existing schemes in terms of average overhead, average degree of encoded symbols, memory usage and energy consumption.