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Constructing LDPC Codes from Partition and Latin-Style Splicing

Information Theory 2018-01-29 v1 math.IT

Abstract

A novel method guaranteeing nondecreasing girth is presented for constructing longer low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from shorter ones. The parity-check matrix of a shorter base code is decomposed into N (N>=2) non-overlapping components with the same size. Then, these components are combined together to form the parity-check matrix of a longer code, according to a given N*N Latin square. To illustrate this method, longer quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes are obtained with girth at least eight and satisfactory performance, via shorter QC-LDPC codes with girth eight but poor performance. The proposed method naturally includes several well-known methods as special cases, but is much more general compared with these existing approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1801.08811,
  title  = {Constructing LDPC Codes from Partition and Latin-Style Splicing},
  author = {Guohua Zhang and Yulin Hu and Qinwei He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08811},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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