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Lattice codes with optimal decoding coefficient are capacity-achieving when dimension $N \rightarrow \infty$. In communications systems, finite dimensional lattice codes are considered, where the optimal decoding coefficients may still fail…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiajie Xue , Brian M. Kurkoski

Assuming iterative decoding for binary erasure channels (BECs), a novel tree-based technique for upper bounding the bit error rates (BERs) of arbitrary, finite low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is provided and the resulting bound can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chih-Chun Wang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. In general polar codes can be decoded via either successive cancellation (SC) or belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. However, to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

We develop a simple and general post-selection strategy for high-rate quantum codes that is transferrable across decoders. After an initial baseline run, the decoder is re-run once per logical observable, and forced in these latter runs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Adam Wills , Theodore J. Yoder , Isaac Chuang

This paper develops a low-complexity near-optimal non-coherent receiver for a multi-level energy-based coded modulation system. Inspired by the turbo processing principle, we incorporate the fundamentals of bit-interleaved coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ali Fazeli , Ha H. Nguyen , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Fault-tolerant quantum computers will depend crucially on the performance of the classical decoding algorithm which takes in the results of measurements and outputs corrections to the errors inferred to have occurred. Machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 John Blue , Harshil Avlani , Zhiyang He , Liu Ziyin , Isaac L. Chuang

In this paper, we will present an analysis on the fault erasure BP decoders based on the density evolution. In the fault BP decoder, messages exchanged in a BP process are stochastically corrupted due to unreliable logic gates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Hiroki Mori , Tadashi Wadayama

Successive relaying can improve the transmission rate by allowing the source and relays to transmit messages simultaneously, but it may cause severe inter-relay interference (IRI). IRI cancellation schemes have been proposed to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lingrui Zhang , Yuxing Han , Qiong Wang , Wei Chen

A rateless code encodes a finite length information word into an infinitely long codeword such that longer prefixes of the codeword can tolerate a larger fraction of errors. A rateless code achieves capacity for a family of channels if, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Benny Applebaum , Liron David , Guy Even

We propose a belief propagation list (BPL) decoder with comparable performance to the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder of polar codes, which already achieves the maximum likelihood (ML) bound of polar codes for sufficiently large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

The interest in polar codes has been increasing significantly since their adoption for use in the 5$^{\rm th}$ generation wireless systems standard. Successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm has low implementation complexity, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

A low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a linear block code described by a sparse parity-check matrix, which can be efficiently represented by a bipartite Tanner graph. The standard iterative decoding algorithm, known as belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Sachini Jayasooriya , Sarah J. Johnson , Lawrence Ong , Regina Berretta

A quantum stabilizer code over GF$(q)$ corresponds to a classical additive code over GF$(q^2)$ that is self-orthogonal with respect to a symplectic inner product. We study the decoding of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ching-Yi Lai , Kao-Yueh Kuo

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 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

We provide a rigorous mathematical analysis of two communication strategies: soft decode-and-forward (soft-DF) for relay channels, and soft partial interference-cancelation (soft-IC) for interference channels. Both strategies involve soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amir Bennatan , Shlomo Shamai , A. Robert Calderbank

Effective iterative decoding of short BCH codes faces two primary challenges: identifying an appropriate parity-check matrix and accelerating decoder convergence. To address these issues, we propose a systematic scheme to derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

In this letter, we present a hybrid iterative decoder for non-binary low density parity check (LDPC) codes over binary erasure channel (BEC), based on which the recursion of the erasure probability is derived to design non-binary LDPC codes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Yang Yu , Wen Chen , Lili Wei

We propose a decoder for quantum low density parity check (LDPC) codes based on a beam search heuristic guided by belief propagation (BP). Our beam search decoder applies to all quantum LDPC codes and achieves different speed-accuracy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Min Ye , Dave Wecker , Nicolas Delfosse

This is the second part of a series of papers on a revisit to the bidirectional Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) soft-in-soft-out (SISO) maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) decoding algorithm. Part I revisited the BCJR MAP decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Qimin You , Yonghui Li , Soung Chang Liew , Branka Vucetic