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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

A low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a linear block code described by a sparse parity-check matrix, which can be efficiently represented by a bipartite Tanner graph. The standard iterative decoding algorithm, known as belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Sachini Jayasooriya , Sarah J. Johnson , Lawrence Ong , Regina Berretta

Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known that, in this classical setting, increasing the girth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kenta Kasai

Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability we need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Kannan Ramchandran , Yunnan Wu , Changho Suh

We present the construction of a new family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that yield low repair bandwidth and low repair complexity. The construction is based on two classes of parity symbols. The primary goal of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström

Distributed storage codes have important applications in the design of modern storage systems. In a distributed storage system, every storage node has a probability to fail and once an individual storage node fails, it must be reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

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

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we study the repair bandwidth and sub-packetization size of RS codes. The repair bandwidth is defined as the amount of transmitted information from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Hamid Jafarkhani

This paper presents a theoretical study of a new type of LDPC codes motivated by practical storage applications. LDPCL codes (suffix L represents locality) are LDPC codes that can be decoded either as usual over the full code block, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto

Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes, where single parity-check constraints on the code bits are replaced with generalized constraints (an arbitrary linear code), are a promising class of codes for low-latency communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell , Anthony Gómez-Fonseca

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 distributed storage systems reliability is achieved through redundancy stored at different nodes in the network. Then a data collector can reconstruct source information even though some nodes fail. To maintain reliability, an autonomous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , Kenneth W. Shum , Dengsheng Lin

Linear nested codes, where two or more sub-codes are nested in a global code, have been proposed as candidates for reliable multi-terminal communication. In this paper, we consider nested array-based spatially coupled low-density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Salman Habib , David G. M. Mitchell , Joerg Kliewer

We study ensembles of codes on graphs (generalized low-density parity-check, or LDPC codes) constructed from random graphs and fixed local constrained codes, and their extension to codes on hypergraphs. It is known that the average minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Alexander Barg , Arya Mazumdar

An ultra-high throughput low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder with an unrolled full-parallel architecture is proposed, which achieves the highest decoding throughput compared to previously reported LDPC decoders in the literature. The…

Fault tolerance in quantum protocols requires contributions from error-correcting codes and their suitable decoders. Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes are one of the most explored quantum codes that have good coding rate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Mainak Bhattacharyya , Ankur Raina

A generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) code is a class of codes, where single parity check nodes in a conventional low-density parity-check (LDPC) code are replaced by linear codes with higher parity check constraints. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jaewha Kim , Jae-Won Kim , Hee-Youl Kwak , Jong-Seon No

We propose a new type of short to moderate block-length, linear error-correcting codes, called moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. The number of ones of the parity-check matrix of the codes presented is typically higher than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Samuel Ouzan , Yair Be'ery

Distributed storage systems are mainly justified due to the limited amount of storage capacity and improving the reliability through distributing data over multiple storage nodes. On the other hand, it may happen the data is stored in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Soroush Akhlaghi , Abbas Kiani , Mohammad Reza Ghanavati

Reed-Solomon codes have found many applications in practical storage systems, but were until recently considered unsuitable for distributed storage applications due to the widely-held belief that they have poor repair bandwidth. The work of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic