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This paper investigates the application of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes to Flash memories. Multiple cell reads with distinct word-line voltages provide limited-precision soft information for the LDPC decoder. The values of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Jiadong Wang , Guiqiang Dong , Thomas Courtade , Hari Shankar , Tong Zhang , Richard Wesel

Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes, where single parity-check constraints on the code bits are replaced with generalized constraints (an arbitrary linear code), are a promising class of codes for low-latency communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell , Anthony Gómez-Fonseca

Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes in which the standard single parity check (SPC) constraints are replaced by constraints defined by a linear block code. These stronger constraints typically result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 David G. M. Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

We present a general approach to designing capacity-approaching high-girth low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that are friendly to hardware implementation. Our methodology starts by defining a new class of "hierarchical" quasi-cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yige Wang , Stark C. Draper , Jonathan S. Yedidia

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

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

Quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes offer higher encoding rate than topological codes, e.g. surface codes, making them favourable for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computing with low overhead. These codes are particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Susan X. Chen , Matthias C. Löbl , Ming Lai Chan , Anders S. Sørensen , Stefano Paesani

We show that spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes yield robust performance over changing intersymbol interfere (ISI) channels with optimal and suboptimal detectors. We compare the performance with classical LDPC code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mgeni Makambi Mashauri , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Michael Lentmaier

In this letter, we propose a reliability-based windowed decoding scheme for spatially-coupled (SC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. To mitigate the error propagation along the sliding windowed decoder of the SC LDPC codes, a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Peng Kang , Yixuan Xie , Lei Yang , Jinhong Yuan

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes within a non-orthogonal interleave division multiple access (IDMA) scheme to avoid cumbersome degree profile matching of the LDPC code components to the iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Sebastian Cammerer , Xiaojie Wang , Yingyan Ma , Stephan ten Brink

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

A novel code construction based on spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes is presented. The proposed code ensembles are described by protographs, comprised of several protograph-based chains characterizing individual…

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

In this paper, we propose new coupled codes constructed by overlapping circular spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes, which show better asymptotic and finite-length decoding performance compared to the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Heeyoul Kwak , Bohwan Jun , Pilwoong Yang , Jong-Seon No , Dong-Joon Shin

While low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are near capacity-achieving when paired with iterative decoders, these decoders may not output a codeword due to the existence of pseudocodewords. Thus, pseudocodewords have been studied to give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wittawat Kositwattanarerk , Gretchen L. Matthews , Emily McMillon , Tunchanok Yutitumsatit

In this study, we investigate the characteristics of scheduling sequences that enable efficient decoding of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes under the layered message-passing algorithm. In particular, we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qingqing Peng , Dongxu Chang , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang

An algorithm for constructing parity-check matrices of non-binary quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (NB QC-LDPC) codes is proposed. The algorithm finds short cycles in the base matrix and tries to eliminate them by selecting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Stanislav Kruglik , Valeriya Potapova , Alexey Frolov

In this study, a scheduling policy of layered decoding for quasi-cycle (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with high throughput and good performance is designed. The influence of scheduling on the delay of the decoder's hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dongxu Chang , Qingqing Peng , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

Real-time decoding is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computing but likely requires specialized hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), whose parallelism can alter relative algorithmic performance. We analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Satvik Maurya , Thilo Maurer , Markus Bühler , Drew Vandeth , Michael E. Beverland

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes can achieve high encoding rates and good code distance scaling, providing a promising route to low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, the long-range connectivity required to…

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for practical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, and recently proposed families of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code are prime candidates for advanced QEC hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nithin Raveendran , David Declercq , Bane Vasić