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

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

This paper presents a new class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), namely half spatially coupled braided convolutional codes (HSC-BCCs) and half spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (HSC-PCCs). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiaowei Wu , Lei Yang , Min Qiu , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

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

In this paper, we analyze the finite-length performance of codes on graphs constructed by connecting spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code chains. Successive (peeling) decoding is considered for the binary erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Pablo M. Olmos , David G. M. Mitchell , Dmitri Truhachev , Daniel J. Costello

We investigate asymptotic capacity limits of the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel (BC) with spatially correlated fading to understand when and how much transmit correlation helps the capacity. By imposing a structure on channel covariances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Junyoung Nam

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes attract much attention due to their capacity-achieving performance and a memory-efficient sliding-window decoding algorithm. On the other hand, the encoder needs to solve large linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Koji Tazoe , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

We establish the existence of wave-like solutions to spatially coupled graphical models which, in the large size limit, can be characterized by a one-dimensional real-valued state. This is extended to a proof of the threshold saturation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Shrinivas Kudekar , Tom Richardson , Ruediger Urbanke

Spatial complementary code keying modulation (SCCKM) is proposed as a novel block coding modulation scheme. An input binary sequence is modulated based on the different lengths of complementary code keying (CCK) modulation and then spread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 A. H. Jafari , T. O'Farrell

The investigation of spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) of broadband light beams is becoming a key topic for the optimization as well as applications of ultrashort laser systems. This calls for accurate measurements of STCs. Yet, it is only…

Factorizing low-rank matrices is a problem with many applications in machine learning and statistics, ranging from sparse PCA to community detection and sub-matrix localization. For probabilistic models in the Bayes optimal setting, general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jean Barbier , Mohamad Dia , Nicolas Macris , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Providing connectivity to aerial users, such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or flying taxis, is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Hesham ElSawy , Majid Butt , Nicola Marchetti

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

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a family of graph-based codes that have attracted significant attention thanks to their capacity approaching performance and low decoding latency. An SC code is constructed by partitioning an underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Ahmed Hareedy , Lara Dolecek

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

We study the design of spectrally efficient fiber-optical communication systems based on different spatially coupled (SC) forward error correction (FEC) schemes. In particular, we optimize the allocation of the coded bits from the FEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

We investigate random spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code ensembles over finite fields. Under different variable-node edge-spreading rules, the random Tanner graphs of several coupled ensembles are defined by multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiaxin Lyu , Guanghui He

In many practical communication systems, one binary encoder/decoder pair is used to communicate over a set of parallel channels. Examples of this setup include multi-carrier transmission, rate-compatible puncturing of turbo-like codes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Alex Alvarado , Fredrik Brännström , Erik Agrell

As network deployments become denser, interference arises as a dominant performance degradation factor. To confront with this trend, Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporated features aiming at enabling cooperation among different base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 George C. Alexandropoulos , Paul Ferrand , Constantinos B. Papadias