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Modern dense Flash memory devices operate at very low error rates, which require powerful error correcting coding (ECC) techniques. An emerging class of graph-based ECC techniques that has broad applications is the class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ahmed Hareedy , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Lara Dolecek

In this paper, we introduce the concept of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs) as the spatial coupling of a number of turbo-like code ensembles. In particular, we consider the spatial coupling of Berrou et al. parallel concatenated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat

In this paper, we investigate the impact of spatial coupling on the thresholds of turbo-like codes. Parallel concatenated and serially concatenated convolutional codes as well as braided convolutional codes (BCCs) are compared by means of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Michael Lentmaier , Saeedeh Moloudi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Spatially coupled codes have been of interest recently owing to their superior performance over memoryless binary-input channels. The performance is good both asymptotically, since the belief propagation thresholds approach capacity, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Aravind R. Iyengar , Paul H. Siegel , Rudiger L. Urbanke , Jack K. Wolf

This paper investigates the design of self-connected spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. First, a termination method is proposed to reduce rate loss. Particularly, a single-side open SC-LDPC ensemble is introduced,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yihuan Liao , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

The concept of spatial coupling is among the most significant breakthroughs in coding theory over the past decade. The excellent waterfall and error floor performance of spatially coupled codes has positioned them as promising coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Min Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Peng Kang , Lei Yang , Jinhong Yuan

We propose a novel encoding/transmission scheme called continuous chain (CC) transmission that is able to improve the finite-length performance of a system using spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. In CC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Pablo M. Olmos , David G. M. Mitchell , Dmitri Truhachev , Daniel J. Costello

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes with finite smoothing parameters. A finite smoothing parameter is important for designing practical codes that are decoded using low-complexity windowed decoders. By optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref , Fanny Jardel

We introduce generalized spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (GSC-PCCs), a class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes obtained by coupling parallel concatenated codes (PCCs) with a fraction of information bits repeated before the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Min Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study spatially coupled LDPC codes that allow access to sub-blocks much smaller than the full code block. Sub-block access is realized by a semi-global decoder that decodes a chosen target sub-block by only accessing the target, plus a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto

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

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haizheng Li , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

Families of generalized spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (GSC-LDPC) code ensembles can be formed by terminating protograph-based generalized LDPC convolutional (GLDPCC) codes. It has previously been shown that ensembles of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

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

We analyze the asymptotic performance of nonbinary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes built on the general linear group, when the transmission takes place over the binary erasure channel. We propose an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Giulio Colavolpe

Spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes are sparse graph codes that have recently become of interest due to their capacity-approaching performance on memoryless binary input channels. In this paper, we unify all existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Allison Beemer , Salman Habib , Christine A. Kelley , Joerg Kliewer

Sparse coding aims to model data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements, but a majority of related studies are restricted to continuous data without spatial or temporal structure. A new model-based sparse coding (MSC)…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-24 Xin Xing , Rui Xie , Wenxuan Zhong

Several authors have proposed spatially-coupled (or convolutional-like) variants of product codes (PCs). In this paper, we focus on a parametrized family of generalized PCs that recovers some of these codes (e.g., staircase and block-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

SD codes are erasure codes that address the mixed failure mode of current RAID systems. Rather than dedicate entire disks to erasure coding, as done in RAID-5, RAID-6 and Reed-Solomon coding, an SD code dedicates entire disks, plus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Mario Blaum , James S. Plank

Streaming codes (SCs) are packet-level codes that recover erased packets within a strict decoding-delay deadline. Streaming codes for various packet erasure channel models such as sliding-window (SW) channel models that admit random or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shobhit Bhatnagar , P. Vijay Kumar