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Low decoding latency and complexity are two important requirements of channel codes used in many applications, like machine-to-machine communications. In this paper, we show how these requirements can be fulfilled by using some special…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Massimo Battaglioni , Alireza Tasdighi , Marco Baldi , Mohammad H. Tadayon , Franco Chiaraluce

One of the phenomena that influences significantly the performance of low-density parity-check codes is known as trapping sets. An $(a,b)$ elementary trapping set, or simply an ETS where $a$ is the size and $b$ is the number of degree-one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Farzane Amirzade , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi

We use the recently introduced lifted product to construct a family of Quantum Low Density Parity Check Codes (QLDPC codes). The codes we obtain can be viewed as stacks of surface codes that are interconnected, leading to the name…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Josias Old , Manuel Rispler , Markus Müller

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

The realization of quantum error correction protocols whose logical error rates are suppressed far below physical error rates relies on an intricate combination: the error-correcting code's efficiency, the syndrome extraction circuit's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Andrey Boris Khesin , Jonathan Z. Lu

Quantum error correction is necessary to perform large-scale quantum computation, but requires extremely large overheads in both space and time. High-rate quantum low-density-parity-check (qLDPC) codes promise a route to reduce qubit…

We consider the decoding of LDPC codes over GF(q) with the low-complexity majority algorithm from [1]. A modification of this algorithm with multiple thresholds is suggested. A lower estimate on the decoding radius realized by the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Alexey Frolov , Victor Zyablov

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes are capable of achieving excellent performance with low encoding and decoding complexity. In this paper we discuss several graph-cover-based methods for deriving families of time-invariant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ali E. Pusane , Roxana Smarandache , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

We give a construction of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes with near-optimal rate-distance tradeoff and efficient list decoding up to the Johnson bound in polynomial time. Previous constructions of list decodable good distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Thiago Bergamaschi , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Tushant Mittal , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

In this paper we consider the generalization of binary spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes to finite fields GF$(q)$, $q\geq 2$, and develop design rules for $q$-ary SC-LDPC code ensembles based on their iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Lai Wei , David G. M. Mitchell , Thomas E. Fuja , Daniel J. Costello

An array low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a quasi-cyclic LDPC code specified by two integers $q$ and $m$, where $q$ is an odd prime and $m \leq q$. The exact minimum distance, for small $q$ and $m$, has been calculated, and tight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirik Rosnes

The goal of the paper is to study specific properties of nonbinary low-density parity-check (NB LDPC) codes when used in coded modulation systems. The paper is focused on the practically important NB LDPC codes over extensions of the Galois…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Irina E. Bocharova , Boris D. Kudryashov , Evgenii P. Ovsyannikov , Vitaly Skachek

In this paper, we report an encoding and decoding method for irregular-quasic-cyclic low-density parity-check (IR-QC-LDPC) codes with multi rates. The algorithm is applicable to parity-check matrices which have dual-diagonal parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kun Cheng , Qiming Lu , Hongbo Xie , Qi Shen , Shengkai Liao , Chengzhi Peng

Spatially-coupled (SC) LDPC codes have recently emerged as an excellent choice for error correction in modern data storage and communication systems due to their outstanding performance. It has long been known that irregular graph codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Ruiyi Wu , Lara Dolecek

We develop a topological theory for fault-tolerant quantum computation in quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. We show that there exist hidden simplicial or CW complex structures encoding the topological data for all qLDPC and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Guanyu Zhu

This paper presents a method for achieving equilibrium in the ISING Hamiltonian when confronted with unevenly distributed charges on an irregular grid. Employing (Multi-Edge) QC-LDPC codes and the Boltzmann machine, our approach involves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Vasiliy Usatyuk , Denis Sapozhnikov , Sergey Egorov

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

It is widely accepted that quantum error correction is essential for realizing large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recent experiments have demonstrated error correction codes operating below threshold, primarily using local planar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Eliška Greplová

This paper presents a novel design framework for protograph-based LDPC codes that simultaneously achieves full diversity in block-fading channels (BFCs) and nearcapacity performance in additive white Gaussian noise channels (AWGNCs). By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Inki Kim , Hyuntae Ahn , Yongjune Kim , Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Sang-Hyo Kim

In this paper, we study a new class of high-rate spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes based on the convolutional self-orthogonal codes (CSOCs) first introduced by Massey. The SC-LDPC codes are constructed by treating the irregular graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel J. Costello, , Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier