Performance Comparison of LDPC Block and Spatially Coupled Codes over GF(q)
Abstract
In this paper, we compare the finite-length performance of protograph-based spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes and LDPC block codes (LDPC-BCs) over GF(q). In order to reduce computational complexity and latency, a sliding window decoder with a stopping rule based on a soft bit-error-rate (BER) estimate is used for the q-ary SC-LDPC codes. Two regimes are considered: one when the constraint length of q-ary SC-LDPC codes is equal to the block length of q-ary LDPC-BCs and the other when the two decoding latencies are equal. Simulation results confirm that, in both regimes, (3,6)-, (3,9)-, and (3,12)-regular non-binary SC-LDPC codes can significantly outperform both binary and non-binary LDPC-BCs and binary SC-LDPC codes. Finally, we present a computational complexity comparison of q-ary SC-LDPC codes and q-ary LDPC-BCs under equal decoding latency and equal decoding performance assumptions.
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@article{arxiv.1408.2621,
title = {Performance Comparison of LDPC Block and Spatially Coupled Codes over GF(q)},
author = {Kechao Huang and David G. M. Mitchell and Lai Wei and Xiao Ma and Daniel J. Costello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2621},
year = {2014}
}
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Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications