Spatially-coupled low-density lattice codes (LDLC) are constructed using protographs. Using Monte Carlo density evolution using single-Gaussian messages, we observe that the threshold of the spatially-coupled LDLC is within 0.22 dB of capacity of the unconstrained power channel. This is in contrast with a 0.5 dB noise threshold for the conventional LDLC lattice construction.
@article{arxiv.1107.4900,
title = {Threshold Improvement of Low-Density Lattice Codes via Spatial Coupling},
author = {Hironori Uchikawa and Brian M. Kurkoski and Kenta Kasai and Kohichi Sakaniwa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4900},
year = {2011}
}