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It is known that windowed decoding (WD) can effectively balance the performance and complexity of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this study, we show that information can propagate in a wave-like manner at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingqing Peng , Dongxu Chang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

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

Non-binary low-density parity-check codes are robust to various channel impairments. However, based on the existing decoding algorithms, the decoder implementations are expensive because of their excessive computational complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chung-Li Wang , Xiaoheng Chen , Zongwang Li , Shaohua Yang

A new type of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes motivated by practical storage applications is presented. SC-LDPCL codes (suffix 'L' stands for locality) can be decoded locally at the level of sub-blocks that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto

Spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes are a class of capacity approaching LDPC codes with low message recovery latency when a sliding window decoding is used. In this paper, we first present a new method for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zeinab Roostaie , Mohammad Gholami , Farzad Parvaresh

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

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

Since the discovery of turbo codes 20 years ago and the subsequent re-discovery of low-density parity-check codes a few years later, the field of channel coding has experienced a number of major advances. Up until that time, code designers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniel J. Costello, , Lara Dolecek , Thomas E. Fuja , Joerg Kliewer , David G. M. Mitchell , Roxana Smarandache

Low decoding latency and complexity are two important requirements of channel codes used in many applications, like machine-to-machine communications. In this paper, we show how these requirements can be fulfilled by using some special…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Massimo Battaglioni , Alireza Tasdighi , Marco Baldi , Mohammad H. Tadayon , Franco Chiaraluce

We face the following dilemma for designing low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) for quantum error correction. 1) The row weights of parity-check should be large: The minimum distances are bounded above by the minimum row weights of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Manabu Hagiwara , Kenta Kasai , Hideki Imai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding for a multitude of equal-capacity channels is studied. First, based on numerous observations, a conjecture is stated that when the belief propagation decoder converges on a set of equal-capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ali Sanaei , Mahdi Ramezani , Masoud Ardakani

In this paper, we compare the finite-length performance of protograph-based spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes and LDPC block codes (LDPC-BCs) over GF(q). In order to reduce computational complexity and latency, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Kechao Huang , David G. M. Mitchell , Lai Wei , Xiao Ma , Daniel J. Costello

For finite coupling lengths, terminated spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes show a non-negligible rate-loss. In this paper, we investigate if this rate loss can be mitigated by tail-biting SC-LDPC codes in conjunction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sebastian Cammerer , Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref , Stephan ten Brink

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 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

In this paper, we propose a non-uniform windowed decoder for multi-dimensional spatially-coupled LDPC (MD-SC-LDPC) codes over the binary erasure channel. An MD-SC-LDPC code is constructed by connecting together several SC-LDPC codes into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Lev Tauz , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Lara Dolecek

We analyze the finite-length performance of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes under window decoding over the binary erasure channel. In particular, we propose a refinement of the scaling law by Olmos and Urbanke for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Roman Sokolovskii , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

We propose a new low-density parity-check code construction scheme based on 2-lifts. The proposed codes have an advantage of admitting efficient hardware implementations. With the motivation of designing codes with low error floors, we…

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

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

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, which were first introduced as LDPC convolutional codes, have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding. This phenomenon is now…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister