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Error Exponents of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on the Binary Erasure Channel

Information Theory 2007-07-16 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks math.IT

Abstract

We introduce a thermodynamic (large deviation) formalism for computing error exponents in error-correcting codes. Within this framework, we apply the heuristic cavity method from statistical mechanics to derive the average and typical error exponents of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes on the binary erasure channel (BEC) under maximum-likelihood decoding.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0605130,
  title  = {Error Exponents of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on the Binary Erasure Channel},
  author = {Thierry Mora and Olivier Rivoire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0605130},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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