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In wireless communications, spatial diversity techniques, such as space-time block code (STBC) and single-input multiple-output (SIMO), are employed to strengthen the robustness of the transmitted signal against channel fading. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Yi Fang , Pingping Chen , Lin Wang , Francis C. M. Lau , Kai-Kit Wong

In this letter, we develop an efficient linear programming (LP) decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We first relax the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding problem to a LP problem by using check-node decomposition.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Jing Bai , Yongchao Wang , Francis C. M. Lau

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

In this paper, we propose a finite alphabet message passing algorithm for LDPC codes that replaces the standard min-sum variable node update rule by a mapping based on generic look-up tables. This mapping is designed in a way that maximizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Michael Meidlinger , Reza Ghanaatian , Gerald Matz , Andreas Burg

In this paper, we propose an efficient decoding algorithm for short low-density parity check (LDPC) codes by carefully combining the belief propagation (BP) decoding and order statistic decoding (OSD) algorithms. Specifically, a modified BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Weiyang Zhang , Chentao Yue , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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 performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) is known to be limited by the presence of certain sub-graphs that exist in the Tanner graph representation of the code, for example trapping sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Homayoon Hatami , David G. M. Mitchell , Daniel J. Costello , Thomas E. Fuja

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

The recent development of deep learning methods provides a new approach to optimize the belief propagation (BP) decoding of linear codes. However, the limitation of existing works is that the scale of neural networks increases rapidly with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jincheng Dai , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Mingzhe Chen , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

We consider generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes with component codes that are duals of Cordaro-Wagner codes. Two efficient decoding algorithms are proposed: one based on Hartmann-Rudolph processing, analogous to Sum-Product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Dawit Simegn , Dmitry Artemasov , Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes are capable of achieving excellent performance with low encoding and decoding complexity. In this paper we discuss several graph-cover-based methods for deriving families of time-invariant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ali E. Pusane , Roxana Smarandache , Pascal O. Vontobel , Daniel J. Costello

We propose and analyze a novel scheme based on LDPC codes for quantitative group testing. The key underlying idea is to augment the bipartite graph by introducing hidden non-binary variables to strengthen the message-passing decoder. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mgeni Makambi Mashauri , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Michael Lentmaier

In this paper, we consider the problem of iterative detection and decoding (IDD) for multi-antenna systems using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed IDD system consists of a soft-input soft-output parallel interference (PIC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Jingjing Liu , Peng Li , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

The recent success in constructing asymptotically good quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes makes this family of codes a promising candidate for error-correcting schemes in quantum computing. However, conventional belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Sisi Miao , Alexander Schnerring , Haizheng Li , Laurent Schmalen

This work considers the design of short non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over finite fields of order m, for channels with phase noise. In particular, m-ary differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) modulated code symbols are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Tudor Ninacs , Balázs Matuz , Gianluigi Liva , Giulio Colavolpe

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

A new approach for combining non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes with higher-order modulation and probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) is presented. Instead of symbol-metric decoding (SMD), a bit-metric decoder (BMD) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Fabian Steiner , Georg Böcherer , Gianluigi Liva

We analyze the performance of quantized min-sum decoding of low-density parity-check codes under unreliable message storage. To this end, we introduce a simple bit-level error model and show that decoder symmetry is preserved under this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

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

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