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We propose a two-stage concatenated coding scheme for reliable and secure communication over intersymbol interference wiretap channels. We first establish the secrecy capacity. Then, motivated by the theoretical codes that achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Aria Nouri , Reza Asvadi , Jun Chen

This paper describes an efficient implementation of binning for the relay channel using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We devise bilayer LDPC codes to approach the theoretically promised rate of the decode-and-forward relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peyman Razaghi , Wei Yu

This paper introduces a class of structured lowdensity parity-check (LDPC) codes whose parity check matrices are arrays of permutation matrices. The permutation matrices are obtained from Latin squares and form a finite field under some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Dung Viet Nguyen , Bane Vasic , Michael Marcellin , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari

The error correction performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes under iterative message-passing decoding is degraded by the presence of certain harmful objects existing in their Tanner graph representation. Depending on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Massimo Battaglioni , Franco Chiaraluce , Marco Baldi , David Mitchell

Iterative decoder failures of quantum low density parity check (QLDPC) codes are attributed to substructures in the code's graph, known as trapping sets, as well as degenerate errors that can arise in quantum codes. Failure inducing sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha , Christine A. Kelley

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to sample random sparse matrices to be used as check matrices for quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. To ease the treatment, we mainly describe our algorithm as a technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Paolo Santini

Spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes show an outstanding performance under the low-complexity belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. They exhibit a peculiar convergence phenomenon above the BP threshold of the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Vahid Aref , Laurent Schmalen , Stephan ten Brink

Linear nested codes, where two or more sub-codes are nested in a global code, have been proposed as candidates for reliable multi-terminal communication. In this paper, we consider nested array-based spatially coupled low-density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Salman Habib , David G. M. Mitchell , Joerg Kliewer

The equivalent binary parity check matrices for the binary images of the cycle-free non-binary LDPC codes have numerous bit-level cycles. In this paper, we show how to transform these binary parity check matrices into their cycle-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Yang Yu , Wen Chen , Jun Li , Xiao Ma , Baoming Bai

Linear Programming (LP) decoding is emerging as an attractive alternative to decode Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. However, the earliest LP decoders proposed for binary and nonbinary LDPC codes are not suitable for use at moderate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Mayur Punekar , Mark F. Flanagan

A ternary message passing (TMP) decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check codes is developed. All messages exchanged between variable and check nodes have a ternary alphabet, and the variable nodes exploit soft information from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Emna Ben Yacoub , Fabian Steiner , Balazs Matuz , Gianluigi Liva

Linear programming (LP) decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes proposed by Feldman et al. is shown to have theoretical guarantees in several regimes and empirically is not observed to suffer from an error floor. However at low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper

Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known that, in this classical setting, increasing the girth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kenta Kasai

An ensemble of LDPC convolutional codes with parity-check matrices composed of permutation matrices is considered. The convergence of the iterative belief propagation based decoder for terminated convolutional codes in the ensemble is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael Lentmaier , Arvind Sridharan , Kamil Sh. Zigangirov , Daniel J. Costello

In this work, the design of robust, protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for rate-adaptive communication via probabilistic shaping is considered. Recently, probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) by B\"ocherer et al. has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Fabian Steiner , Patrick Schulte

Message-passing iterative decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) block codes are known to be subject to decoding failures due to so-called pseudo-codewords. These failures can cause the large signal-to-noise ratio performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Roxana Smarandache , Ali E. Pusane , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

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

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are usually decoded by running an iterative belief-propagation, or message-passing, algorithm over the factor graph of the code. The traditional message-passing schedule consists of updating all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Andres I. Vila Casado , Miguel Griot , Richard D. Wesel

In this paper, we investigate absorbing sets, responsible of error floors in Low Density Parity Check codes. We look for a concise, quantitative way to rate the absorbing sets' dangerousness. Based on a simplified model for iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Alessandro Tomasoni , Sandro Bellini , Marco Ferrari

We consider the problem of identifying defective items in a population with non-adaptive quantitative group testing. For this scenario, Mashauri et al. recently proposed a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code-based quantitative group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marvin Xhemrishi , Johan Östman , Alexandre Graell i Amat