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This paper analyzes the distribution of cycle lengths in turbo decoding and low-density parity check (LDPC) graphs. The properties of such cycles are of significant interest in the context of iterative decoding algorithms which are based on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-01-21 Xian-ping Ge , David Eppstein , Padhraic Smyth

This paper introduces a class of structured lowdensity parity-check (LDPC) codes whose parity check matrices are arrays of permutation matrices. The permutation matrices are obtained from Latin squares and form a finite field under some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Dung Viet Nguyen , Bane Vasic , Michael Marcellin , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari

In this paper, we deal with time-invariant spatially coupled low-density parity-check convolutional codes (SC-LDPC-CCs). Classic design approaches usually start from quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) block codes and exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Massimo Battaglioni , Alireza Tasdighi , Giovanni Cancellieri , Franco Chiaraluce , Marco Baldi

We derive two families of EA-QC quantum LDPC (EA-QC-QLDPC) codes by tiling permutation matrices of prime and composite orders. The unassisted portion of the Tanner graphs corresponding to these codes, constructed from two distinct classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pavan Kumar , Abhi Kumar Sharma , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

Iterative decoding and linear programming decoding are guaranteed to converge to the maximum-likelihood codeword when the underlying Tanner graph is cycle-free. Therefore, cycles are usually seen as the culprit of low-density parity-check…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Wittawat Kositwattanarerk

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

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are among the most prominent error-correction schemes. They find application to fortify various modern storage, communication, and computing systems. Protograph-based (PB) LDPC codes offer many degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

In this work, we propose a fully differentiable iterative decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed algorithm is composed of classical belief propagation (BP) decoding stages and intermediate graph neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Sebastian Cammerer , Joseph M. Renes

In this paper, we propose a linear complexity encoding method for arbitrary LDPC codes. We start from a simple graph-based encoding method ``label-and-decide.'' We prove that the ``label-and-decide'' method is applicable to Tanner graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jin Lu , José M. F. Moura

Due to their capacity approaching performance low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes gained a lot of attention in the last years. The parity-check matrix of the codes can be associated with a bipartite graph, called Tanner graph. To decrease…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Elisa Junghans , Julia Lieb

We investigate the use of Gallager's low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in a broadcast channel, one of the fundamental models in network information theory. Combining linear codes is a standard technique in practical network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Nakamura , Robert Morelos-Zaragoza , David Saad , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for finding the dominant trapping sets of a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. The algorithm can be used to estimate the error floor of LDPC codes or to be part of the apparatus to design LDPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Mehdi Karimi , Amir H. Banihashemi

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been the subject of much interest due to the fact that they can perform near the Shannon limit. In this paper we present a construction of LDPC codes from cubic symmetric graphs. The constructed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Dean Crnkovic , Sanja Rukavina , Marina Simac

The non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes can offer promising performance advantages but suffer from high decoding complexity. To tackle this challenge, in this paper, we consider NB-LDPC codes over finite fields as codes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 V. B. Wijekoon , Emanuele Viterbo , Yi Hong

The relation between parity-check matrices of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs supports searching for powerful LDPC block codes. Using the principle of tailbiting, compact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Irina E. Bocharova , Florian Hug , Rolf Johannesson , Boris D. Kudryashov , Roman V. Satyukov

This paper basically expresses the core fundamentals and brief overview of the research of R. G. GALLAGER [1] on Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes and various parameters related to LDPC codes like, encoding and decoding of LDPC codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Saumya Borwankar , Dhruv Shah

The main goal of coding theory is to devise efficient systems to exploit the full capacity of a communication channel, thus achieving an arbitrarily small error probability. Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are a family of block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-18 L. Giuzzi , A. Sonnino

With the use of belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes can achieve near-Shannon limit performance. In order to evaluate the error performance of LDPC codes, simulators running on CPUs are commonly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Yue Zhao , Francis C. M. Lau

Optimal constructions of classical LDPC codes can be obtained by choosing the Tanner graph uniformly at random among biregular graphs. We introduce a class of codes that we call ``diffusion codes'', defined by placing each edge connecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Adithya Sriram , Vedika Khemani , Benedikt Placke

In this paper, we propose a new design method of irregular spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes with non-uniform degree distributions by linear programming (LP). In general, irregular SC-LDPC codes with non-uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Heeyoul Kwak , Jong-Seon No , Hosung Park