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Spatially coupled codes have been shown to universally achieve the capacity for a large class of channels. Many variants of such codes have been introduced to date. We discuss a further such variant that is particularly simple and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Dimitris Achlioptas , Hamed Hassani , Wei Liu , Rüdiger Urbanke

This paper presents a novel design framework for protograph-based LDPC codes that simultaneously achieves full diversity in block-fading channels (BFCs) and nearcapacity performance in additive white Gaussian noise channels (AWGNCs). By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Inki Kim , Hyuntae Ahn , Yongjune Kim , Hee-Youl Kwak , Dae-Young Yun , Sang-Hyo Kim

The multidimensional convolutional codes are an extension of the notion of convolutional codes (CCs) to several dimensions of time. This paper explores the class of two-dimensional convolutional codes (2D CCs) and 2D tail-biting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Liam Alfandary , Dan Raphaeli

Families of "asymptotically regular" LDPC block code ensembles can be formed by terminating (J,K)-regular protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes. By varying the termination length, we obtain a large selection of LDPC block code ensembles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 David G. M. Mitchell , Roxana Smarandache , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

Codes constructed from connected spatially coupled low-density parity-check code (SC-LDPCC) chains are proposed and analyzed. It is demonstrated that connecting coupled chains results in improved iterative decoding performance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Dmitri Truhachev , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello,

Spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes are sparse graph codes that have recently become of interest due to their capacity-approaching performance on memoryless binary input channels. In this paper, we unify all existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Allison Beemer , Salman Habib , Christine A. Kelley , Joerg Kliewer

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

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

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes is a class of convolutional LDPC codes that has been well investigated in classical coding theory thanks to their high performance and compatibility with low-latency decoders. We describe toric codes as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Siyi Yang , Robert Calderbank

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

In this paper, we perform a threshold analysis of braided convolutional codes (BCCs) on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The decoding thresholds are estimated by Monte-Carlo density evolution (MC-DE) techniques and compared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier

This paper is concerned with construction and structural analysis of both cyclic and quasi-cyclic codes, particularly LDPC codes. It consists of three parts. The first part shows that a cyclic code given by a parity-check matrix in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-16 Qin Huang , Qiuju Diao , Shu Lin , Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

Consider an ensemble of regular generalized LDPC (GLDPC) codes and assume that the same component code is associated with each parity check node. To decode a GLDPC code from the ensemble, we use the bit flipping bounded distance decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 David Burshtein

A new class of spatially-coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), dubbed generalized spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (GSC-PCCs), is introduced. These codes are constructed by applying spatial coupling on parallel concatenated codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Min Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Generalized product codes (GPCs) are extensions of product codes (PCs) where code symbols are protected by two component codes but not necessarily arranged in a rectangular array. We consider a deterministic construction of GPCs (as opposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

Density evolution (DE) is one of the most powerful analytical tools for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes on memoryless binary-input/symmetric-output channels. The case of non-symmetric channels is tackled either by the LDPC coset code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chih-Chun Wang , H. Vincent Poor , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

We propose an approach for optimizing nonbinary (NB) quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes. This approach combines constructing of base parity-check matrices by simulated annealing and labeling the obtained base matrices aimed at maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Irina E. Bocharova , Boris D. Kudryashov , Evgenii P. Ovsyannikov , Vitaly Skachek , Tähvend Uustalu

The minimum pseudoweight is an important parameter related to the decoding performance of LDPC codes with iterative message-passing decoding. In this paper, we consider ensembles of periodically time-varying spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Cunlu Zhou , David G. M. Mitchell , Roxana Smarandache

We present a tree-based construction of LDPC codes that have minimum pseudocodeword weight equal to or almost equal to the minimum distance, and perform well with iterative decoding. The construction involves enumerating a $d$-regular tree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christine Kelley , Deepak Sridhara , Joachim Rosenthal

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