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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

Spatially-coupled LDPC codes are known to have excellent asymptotic properties. Much less is known regarding their finite-length performance. We propose a scaling law to predict the error probability of finite-length spatially-coupled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Pablo M. Olmos , Rüdiger Urbanke

The joint design of input constellation and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes to approach the symmetric capacity of the two-user Gaussian multiple access channel is studied. More specifically, multilevel coding is employed at each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Stefano Rini , Joerg Kliewer

The near channel performance of Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) has motivated its wide applications. Iterative decoding of LDPC codes provides significant implementation challenges as the complexity grows with the code size. Recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Sudeep Kanur , Georgios Georgakarakos , Antti Siirilä , Jérémie Lagravière , Kristian Nybom , Sébastien Lafond , Johan Lilius

We investigate the minimum distance of structured binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes whose parity-check matrices are of the form $[\mathbf{C} \vert \mathbf{M}]$ where $\mathbf{C}$ is circulant and of column weight $2$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 François Arnault , Philippe Gaborit , Wouter Rozendaal , Nicolas Saussay , Gilles Zémor

This letter proposes a novel method for accelerating iterative detection for spatially coupled (SC) systems. An SC system is constructed by one-dimensional coupling of many subsystems, which are classified into training and propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Keigo Takeuchi

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Gretchen L. Matthews , Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha

Protograph-based, off-the-shelf low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are optimized for higher-order modulation and quantized sum-product decoders. As an example, for the recently proposed LDPC code from the upcoming IEEE 802.3ca standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Fabian Steiner , Gerhard Kramer

Layered decoding is well appreciated in Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder implementation since it can achieve effectively high decoding throughput with low computation complexity. This work, for the first time, addresses low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Zhiqiang Cui , Zhongfeng Wang , Xinmiao Zhang

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications. They also find application in various data storage systems because of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

Recently, it has been observed that terminated low-density-parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes (or spatially-coupled codes) appear to approach capacity universally across the class of binary memoryless channels. This is facilitated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-12 Phong S. Nguyen , Arvind Yedla , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Protograph-based Raptor-like low-density parity-check codes (PBRL codes) are a recently proposed family of easily encodable and decodable rate-compatible LDPC (RC-LDPC) codes. These codes have an excellent iterative decoding threshold and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Dariush Divsalar , Richard D. Wesel

The aim of this paper is to show that spatial coupling can be viewed not only as a means to build better graphical models, but also as a tool to better understand uncoupled models. The starting point is the observation that some asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Andrei Giurgiu , Nicolas Macris , Rüdiger Urbanke

This paper is concerned with construction and structural analysis of both cyclic and quasi-cyclic codes, particularly LDPC codes. It consists of three parts. The first part shows that a cyclic code given by a parity-check matrix in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-16 Qin Huang , Qiuju Diao , Shu Lin , Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

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

This paper produces a rate-compatible protograph LDPC code at 1k information blocklength with superior performance in both waterfall and error floor regions. The design of such codes has proved difficult in the past because the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Thuy Van Nguyen , Aria Nosratinia , Dariush Divsalar

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

Fault tolerance in quantum protocols requires contributions from error-correcting codes and their suitable decoders. Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes are one of the most explored quantum codes that have good coding rate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Mainak Bhattacharyya , Ankur Raina

We consider spatially-coupled protograph-based LDPC codes for the three terminal erasure relay channel. It is observed that BP threshold value, the maximal erasure probability of the channel for which decoding error probability converges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Hironori Uchikawa , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

This paper considers the achievable rates and decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over statistically independent parallel channels. The paper starts with the derivation of bounds on the conditional entropy of the…

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