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Sparse regression codes (SPARCs) are a class of codes that encode information through the superposition of columns of a randomised coding matrix. The combination with an outer non-binary low density parity check (NB-LDPC) code was recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexander Fengler , Burak Çakmak , Giuseppe Caire

We propose a new low-density parity-check code construction scheme based on 2-lifts. The proposed codes have an advantage of admitting efficient hardware implementations. With the motivation of designing codes with low error floors, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

We introduce a new method for decoding short and moderate length linear block codes with dense parity-check matrix representations of cyclic form, termed multiple-bases belief-propagation (MBBP). The proposed iterative scheme makes use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Thorsten Hehn , Johannes B. Huber , Olgica Milenkovic , Stefan Laendner

We present a mathematical connection between channel coding and compressed sensing. In particular, we link, on the one hand, \emph{channel coding linear programming decoding (CC-LPD)}, which is a well-known relaxation o maximum-likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Roxana Smarandache , Pascal O. Vontobel

Since the classical work of Berlekamp, McEliece and van Tilborg, it is well known that the problem of exact maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of general linear codes is NP-hard. In this paper, we show that exact ML decoding of a classs of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiyu Xu , Babak Hassibi

Recently, we introduced a new class of finite alphabet iterative decoders (FAIDs) for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. These decoders are capable of surpassing belief propagation in the error floor region on the Binary Symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Declercq , Bane Vasic , Shiva Kumar Planjery , Erbao Li

The paper is focused on the tradeoff between performance and decoding complexity per iteration for LDPC codes in terms of their gap (in rate) to capacity. The study of this tradeoff is done via information-theoretic bounds which also enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

The paper presents bounds on the achievable rates and the decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. It is assumed that the communication of these codes takes place over statistically independent parallel channels where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

In this work, we develop a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (ML) decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes over erasures. Our decoder combines classical inactivation decoding, which integrates peeling with symbolic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giulio Pech , Mert Gökduman , Hanwen Yao , Henry D. Pfister

We propose a new type of short to moderate block-length, linear error-correcting codes, called moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. The number of ones of the parity-check matrix of the codes presented is typically higher than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Samuel Ouzan , Yair Be'ery

This paper studies the decoding capabilities of maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes over the erasure channel and compares them with the decoding capabilities of MDS block codes over the same channel. The erasure channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-18 Virtudes Tomás , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with column-weight three to correct three errors when decoded using hard-decision message-passing decoding. Additionally, we give necessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Anantha Raman Krishnan , Bane Vasic , Michael W. Marcellin

We study Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding on block-fading (BF) Relay Channels. We consider two users that employ coded cooperation, a variant of decode-and-forward with a smaller outage probability than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Dieter Duyck , Joseph J. Boutros , Marc Moeneclaey

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been used for communication over a two-user Gaussian broadcast channel. It has been shown in the literature that the optimal decoding of such system requires joint decoding of both user messages at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Ramezani , Masoud Ardakani

We present a decode-and-forward transmission scheme based on spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes for a network consisting of two (possibly correlated) sources, one relay, and one destination. The links between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Stefan Schwandter , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gerald Matz

When binary linear error-correcting codes are used over symmetric channels, a relaxed version of the maximum likelihood decoding problem can be stated as a linear program (LP). This LP decoder can be used to decode error-correcting codes at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Siddharth Barman , Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper , Benjamin Recht

In this paper, we propose an efficient decoding algorithm for short low-density parity check (LDPC) codes by carefully combining the belief propagation (BP) decoding and order statistic decoding (OSD) algorithms. Specifically, a modified BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Weiyang Zhang , Chentao Yue , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Non-binary low-density parity-check codes are robust to various channel impairments. However, based on the existing decoding algorithms, the decoder implementations are expensive because of their excessive computational complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chung-Li Wang , Xiaoheng Chen , Zongwang Li , Shaohua Yang

We present simple constructions of optimal erasure-correcting LRC codes by exhibiting their parity-check matrices. When the number of local parities in a parity group plus the number of global parities is smaller than the size of the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Mario Blaum

Multiple reads of the same Flash memory cell with distinct word-line voltages provide enhanced precision for LDPC decoding. In this paper, the word-line voltages are optimized by maximizing the mutual information (MI) of the quantized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Jiadong Wang , Kasra Vakilinia , Tsung-Yi Chen , Thomas Courtade , Guiqiang Dong , Tong Zhang , Hari Shankar , Richard Wesel