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A new class of spatially-coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), dubbed generalized spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (GSC-PCCs), is introduced. These codes are constructed by applying spatial coupling on parallel concatenated codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Min Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications and data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

This paper investigates the design of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes constructed from connected-chain ensembles for bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) schemes. For short coupling lengths, connecting multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Yihuan Liao , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bade Aksoy , Doğukan Özbayrak , Ahmed Hareedy

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

In this paper, we introduce the concept of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), as the turbo codes counterpart of spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes. We describe spatial coupling for both Berrou et al. and Benedetto et al.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We consider spatially coupled code ensembles over a multiple access channel. Convolutional LDPC ensembles are one instance of spatially coupled codes. It was shown recently that, for transmission over the binary erasure channel, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Shrinivas Kudekar , Kenta Kasai

Recently, it has been observed that terminated low-density-parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes (or spatially-coupled codes) appear to approach capacity universally across the class of binary memoryless channels. This is facilitated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-12 Phong S. Nguyen , Arvind Yedla , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this work, we analyze efficient window shift schemes for windowed decoding of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes, which is known to yield close-tooptimal decoding results when compared to full belief propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Kevin Klaiber , Sebastian Cammerer , Laurent Schmalen , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper we propose a new class of spatially coupled codes based on repeat-accumulate protographs. We show that spatially coupled repeat-accumulate codes have several advantages over spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Sarah J. Johnson , Gottfried Lechner

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

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

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

In this paper, we construct protograph-based spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes by coupling together a series of L disjoint, or uncoupled, LDPC code Tanner graphs into a single coupled chain. By varying L, we obtain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

Product codes (PCs) and staircase codes (SCCs) are conventionally decoded based on bounded distance decoding (BDD) of the component codes and iterating between row and column decoders. The performance of iterative BDD (iBDD) can be improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Alex Alvarado

We study low-complexity iterative decoding algorithms for product codes. We revisit two algorithms recently proposed by the authors based on bounded distance decoding (BDD) of the component codes that improve the performance of conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva , Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister

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

Variable-length splittable codes are derived from encoding sequences of ordered integer pairs, where one of the pair's components is upper bounded by some constant, and the other one is any positive integer. Each pair is encoded by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Anatoly V. Anisimov , Igor O. Zavadskyi

In this paper we study the iterative decoding threshold performance of non-binary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (NB-SC-LDPC) code ensembles for both the binary erasure channel (BEC) and the binary-input additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lai Wei , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , David G. M. Mitchell , Thomas E. Fuja , Daniel J. Costello