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Recent work by Divsalar et al. has shown that properly designed protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes typically have minimum (Hamming) distance linearly increasing with block length. This fact rests on ensemble arguments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Brian K. Butler , Paul H. Siegel

We present a sequential Bayesian learning method for tracking non-stationary signal-to-noise ratios in LDPC codes using probabilistic graphical models. We represent the LDPC code as a cluster graph using a general purpose cluster graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 J du Toit , J du Preez , R Wolhuter

Quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are an important class of quantum error correcting codes. In such codes, each qubit only affects a constant number of syndrome bits, and each syndrome bit only relies on some constant number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Nouédyn Baspin , Anirudh Krishna

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Gretchen L. Matthews , Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha

We propose a novel encoding/transmission scheme called continuous chain (CC) transmission that is able to improve the finite-length performance of a system using spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. In CC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Pablo M. Olmos , David G. M. Mitchell , Dmitri Truhachev , Daniel J. Costello

This paper propose a decoder architecture for low-density parity-check convolutional code (LDPCCC). Specifically, the LDPCCC is derived from a quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC block code. By making use of the quasi-cyclic structure, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chiu-Wing Sham , Xu Chen , Francis C. M. Lau , Yue Zhao , Wai M. Tam

In practice, LDPC codes are decoded using message passing methods. These methods offer good performance but tend to converge slowly and sometimes fail to converge and to decode the desired codewords correctly. Recently, tree-reweighted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-05 J. Li , R. C. de Lamare , H. Wymeersch

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

It is known that windowed decoding (WD) can effectively balance the performance and complexity of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this study, we show that information can propagate in a wave-like manner at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Qingqing Peng , Dongxu Chang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

Several types of AL-FEC (Application-Level FEC) codes for the Packet Erasure Channel exist. Random Linear Codes (RLC), where redundancy packets consist of random linear combinations of source packets over a certain finite field, are a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Kazuhisa Matsuzono , Vincent Roca , Hitoshi Asaeda

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

A Bounded-Degree Low-Rank Parity-Check (BD-LRPC) code is a rank-metric code that admits a parity-check matrix whose support is generated by a set of powers of an element. This specific structure of the parity-check matrix was employed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hermann Tchatchiem Kamche

We propose a new type of ultimate-Shannon-limit-approaching codes called spatially coupled protograph-based low-density parity-check Hadamard convolutional codes (SC-PLDPCH-CCs), which are constructed by spatially coupling PLDPC-Hadamard…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Peng W. Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau , Chiu-W. Sham

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are promising candidates for quantum error correcting codes as they might offer more resource-efficient alternatives to surface code architectures. In particular, bivariate bicycle codes have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Jens Niklas Eberhardt , Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Vincent Steffan

Spatially-coupled low-density lattice codes (LDLC) are constructed using protographs. Using Monte Carlo density evolution using single-Gaussian messages, we observe that the threshold of the spatially-coupled LDLC is within 0.22 dB of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Hironori Uchikawa , Brian M. Kurkoski , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

In this paper we present a thorough analysis of non binary LDPC codes over the binary erasure channel. First, the decoding of non binary LDPC codes is investigated. The proposed algorithm performs on-the-fly decoding, i.e. it starts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Valentin Savin

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution utilizes an ensemble of coherent states of light to distribute secret encryption keys between two parties. One of the challenges is thereby the requirement of capacity approaching error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Hossein Mani , Tobias Gehring , Christoph Pacher , Ulrik Lund Andersen

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes with finite smoothing parameters. A finite smoothing parameter is important for designing practical codes that are decoded using low-complexity windowed decoders. By optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref , Fanny Jardel

We propose a new code design that aims to distribute an LDPC code over a relay channel. It is based on a split-and-extend approach, which allows the relay to split the set of bits connected to some parity-check of the LDPC code into two or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-30 Valentin Savin

A number of recent works have used a variety of combinatorial constructions to derive Tanner graphs for LDPC codes and some of these have been shown to perform well in terms of their probability of error curves and error floors. Such graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Ian Blake , Shu Lin