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Typical performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over a general binary-input output-symmetric memoryless channel is investigated using methods of statistical mechanics. Theoretical framework for dealing with general symmetric…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Toshiyuki Tanaka , David Saad

We study the performance of nonbinary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over finite integer rings over two channels that arise from the Lee metric. The first channel is a discrete memory-less channel (DMC) matched to the Lee metric. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jessica Bariffi , Hannes Bartz , Gianluigi Liva , Joachim Rosenthal

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are specified by graphs, and are the error correction technique of choice in many communications and data storage contexts. Message passing decoders diffuse information carried by parity bits into the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Beyza Dabak , Ece Tiryaki , Robert Calderbank , Ahmed Hareedy

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

We explain how to optimize finite-length LDPC codes for transmission over the binary erasure channel. Our approach relies on an analytic approximation of the erasure probability. This is in turn based on a finite-length scaling result to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Abdelaziz Amraoui , Andrea Montanari , Ruediger Urbanke

Efficient decoding is crucial to high-throughput and power-sensitive wireless communication scenarios. A theoretical analysis of the performance-complexity tradeoff toward low-complexity decoding is required for a better understanding of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Qingqing Peng , Dawei Yin , Dongxu Chang , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang

The bit-error threshold of the standard ensemble of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is known to be close to capacity, if there is a non-zero fraction of degree-two bit nodes. However, the degree-two bit nodes preclude the possibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Arunkumar Subramanian , Andrew Thangaraj

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

Raptor codes have been widely used in many multimedia broadcast/multicast applications. However, our understanding of Raptor codes is still incomplete due to the insufficient amount of theoretical work on the performance analysis of Raptor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Peng Wang , Guoqiang Mao , Zihuai Lin , Ming Ding , Weifa Liang , Xiaohu Ge , Zhiyun Lin

We introduce a new family of concatenated codes with an outer low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and an inner low-density generator matrix (LDGM) code, and prove that these codes can achieve capacity under any memoryless binary-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Chun-Hao Hsu , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We present Kovalenko's full-rank limit as a tight lower bound for decoding error probability of LDPC codes and LT codes over BEC. From the limit, we derive a full-rank overhead as a lower bound for stable overheads for successful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ki-Moon Lee , Hayder Radha , Beom-Jin Kim

We show that duals of certain low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, when used in a standard coset coding scheme, provide strong secrecy over the binary erasure wiretap channel (BEWC). This result hinges on a stopping set analysis of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-26 Ananda T. Suresh , Arunkumar Subramanian , Andrew Thangaraj , Matthieu Bloch , Steven McLaughlin

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been used for communication over a two-user Gaussian broadcast channel. It has been shown in the literature that the optimal decoding of such system requires joint decoding of both user messages at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Ramezani , Masoud Ardakani

In this paper, we design the optimal rate capacity approaching irregular Low-Density Parity-Check code ensemble over Binary Erasure Channel, by using practical Semi-Definite Programming approach. Our method does not use any relaxation or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-28 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian , M. Reza Peyghami

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand decoding algorithms that simultaneously offer high reliability and low complexity under stringent latency constraints. While iterative decoding schemes for LDPC and Polar codes offer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Enrico Testi , Enrico Paolini

This paper presents an achievability bound that evaluates the exact probability of error of an ensemble of random codes that are decoded by a minimum distance decoder. Compared to the state-of-the-art which demands exponential computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Angela Doufexi , Robert J. Piechocki

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) operate with short packets, where finite-blocklength effects make near-maximum-likelihood (near-ML) decoding desirable but often too costly. This paper proposes a two-stage near-ML decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yubeen Jo , Geon Choi , Yongjune Kim , Namyoon Lee

Consider communication over a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel with low density parity check (LDPC) codes and maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. The replica method of spin glass theory allows to conjecture an analytic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shrinivas Kudekar , Nicolas Macris

The goal of the paper is to study specific properties of nonbinary low-density parity-check (NB LDPC) codes when used in coded modulation systems. The paper is focused on the practically important NB LDPC codes over extensions of the Galois…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Irina E. Bocharova , Boris D. Kudryashov , Evgenii P. Ovsyannikov , Vitaly Skachek

CC-GLPDC codes are a class of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes where the constraint nodes (CNs) represent convolutional codes. This allows for efficient decoding in the trellis with the forward-backward algorithm, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat