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Forward error correcting (FEC) codes are used in many communication standards with a wide range of re quirements. FEC codes should work close to capacity, achieve low error floors, and have low decoding complexity. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Vincent Wüst , Erdem Eray Cil , Laurent Schmalen

LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes are among the most powerful and widely adopted modern error correcting codes. The iterative decoding algorithms required for these codes involve high computational complexity and high processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-16 Carlo Condo , Guido Masera

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

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes form part of the IRIG-106 standard and have been successfully deployed for the Telemetry Group version of shaped-offset quadrature phase shift keying (SOQPSK-TG) modulation. Recently, LDPC code…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Andrew D. Cummins , David G. M. Mitchell , Erik Perrins

In this paper, we propose a new method to design low-density parity-check Hadamard (LDPC-Hadamard) codes, a type of ultimate-Shannon-limit approaching channel codes. The technique is based on applying Hadamard constraints to the check nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Peng W. Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau , Chiu-W. Sham

This letter produces a family of rate-compatible protograph-based LDPC codes approaching the independent and uniformly distributed (i.u.d.) capacity of inter-symbol interference (ISI) channels. This problem is highly nontrivial due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Thuy Van Nguyen , Aria Nosratinia , Dariush Divsalar

Achieving high image quality is an important aspect in an increasing number of wireless multimedia applications. These applications require resource efficient error correction hardware to detect and correct errors introduced by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty , Syed Mahfuzul Aziz

This paper propose a decoder architecture for low-density parity-check convolutional code (LDPCCC). Specifically, the LDPCCC is derived from a quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC block code. By making use of the quasi-cyclic structure, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chiu-Wing Sham , Xu Chen , Francis C. M. Lau , Yue Zhao , Wai M. Tam

Protograph-based, off-the-shelf low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are optimized for higher-order modulation and quantized sum-product decoders. As an example, for the recently proposed LDPC code from the upcoming IEEE 802.3ca standard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Fabian Steiner , Gerhard Kramer

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes received much attention recently due to their capacity-approaching performance. The iterative message-passing algorithm is a widely adopted decoding algorithm for LDPC codes \cite{Kschischang01}. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

We solve the problem of designing powerful low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding for the block-fading channel. We first study the case of maximum-likelihood decoding, and show that the design criterion is rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Joseph J. Boutros , Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Ezio Biglieri , Gilles Zemor

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

An algorithm is proposed to encode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes into codewords with a non-uniform distribution. This enables power-efficient signalling for asymmetric channels. We show gains of 0.9 dB for additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Thomas Wiegart , Linfang Wang , Diego Lentner , Richard D. Wesel

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

This work addresses the physical layer channel code design for an uncoordinated, frame- and slot-asynchronous random access protocol. Starting from the observation that collisions between two users yield very specific interference patterns,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Federico Clazzer , Balazs Matuz , Sachini Jayasooriya , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Sarah J. Johnson

We propose a deterministic method to design irregular Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes for binary erasure channels (BEC). Compared to the existing methods, which are based on the application of asymptomatic analysis tools such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-24 Hamid Saeedi , Amir H. Banihashemi

Soft forward error correction with higher-order modulations is often implemented in practice via the pragmatic bit-interleaved coded modulation paradigm, where a single binary code is mapped to a nonbinary modulation. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

Rate-matching of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes enables a single code description to support a wide range of code lengths and rates. In 5G NR, rate matching is accomplished by extending (lifting) a base code to a desired target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Reinhard Wiesmayr , Darja Nonaca , Chris Dick , Christoph Studer

A new protograph-based framework for message passing (MP) decoding of low density parity-check (LDPC) codes with Hamming weight amplifiers (HWAs), which are used e.g. in the NIST post-quantum crypto candidate LEDAcrypt, is proposed. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Hannes Bartz , Emna Ben Yacoub , Lorenza Bertarelli , Gianluigi Liva

Rate-adaptive MacKay-Neal (MN) codes based on protographs are analyzed. The code construction employs an outer distribution matcher (DM) to adapt the rate of the scheme. The DM is coupled with an inner protograph-based low-density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ayman Zahr , Emna Ben Yacoub , Balázs Matuz , Gianluigi Liva