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Non-binary low-density parity-check codes are robust to various channel impairments. However, based on the existing decoding algorithms, the decoder implementations are expensive because of their excessive computational complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chung-Li Wang , Xiaoheng Chen , Zongwang Li , Shaohua Yang

In this work, we present an adaptive reliability-driven conditional innovation (AR-CID) decoding algorithm for low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. The proposed AR-CID decoding algorithm consists of one stage of message quality checking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hassan Touati , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Decoder diversity is a powerful error correction framework in which a collection of decoders collaboratively correct a set of error patterns otherwise uncorrectable by any individual decoder. In this paper, we propose a new approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xin Xiao , Nithin Raveendran , Bane Vasic , Shu Lin , Ravi Tandon

We introduce a novel algorithm for decoding binary linear codes by linear programming. We build on the LP decoding algorithm of Feldman et al. and introduce a post-processing step that solves a second linear program that reweights the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Amin Khajehnejad , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Babak Hassibi , Benjamin Vigoda , William Bradley

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are an important feature of several communication and storage applications, offering a flexible and effective method for error correction. These codes are computationally complex and require the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Oscar Ferraz , Vitor Silva , Gabriel Falcao

Linear Programming (LP) decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes has attracted much attention in the research community in the past few years. LP decoding has been derived for binary and nonbinary linear codes. However, the most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mayur Punekar , Pascal O. Vontobel , Mark F. Flanagan

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

Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is an essential field of research towards the realization of large-scale quantum computers. On the theoretical side, a lot of effort is put into designing error-correcting codes that protect quantum data from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Lucas Berent , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

In this paper, we consider quantized decoding of LDPC codes on the binary symmetric channel. The binary message passing algorithms, while allowing extremely fast hardware implementation, are not very attractive from the perspective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lucile Sassatelli , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Bane Vasic , David Declercq

Dirty paper coding (DPC) refers to methods for pre-subtraction of known interference at the transmitter of a multiuser communication system. There are numerous applications for DPC, including coding for broadcast channels. Recently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-21 G Shilpa , Andrew Thangaraj , Srikrishna Bhashyam

Integrated circuits (ICs) are the foundation of all computing systems. They comprise high-value hardware intellectual property (IP) that are at risk of piracy, reverse-engineering, and modifications while making their way through the…

Protograph-based low-density parity-check Hadamard codes (PLDPC-HCs) are a new type of ultimate-Shannon-limit-approaching codes. In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture for the PLDPC-HC layered decoders. The decoders consist…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Peng W. Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau , Chiu-W. Sham

Linear programming (LP) decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes proposed by Feldman et al. is shown to have theoretical guarantees in several regimes and empirically is not observed to suffer from an error floor. However at low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xishuo Liu , Stark C. Draper

Finite alphabet iterative decoders (FAIDs) for LDPC codes were recently shown to be capable of surpassing the Belief Propagation (BP) decoder in the error floor region on the Binary Symmetric channel (BSC). More recently, the technique of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Shiva Kumar Planjery , Bane Vasic , David Declercq

Logic locking is used to protect integrated circuits (ICs) from piracy and counterfeiting. An encrypted IC implements the correct function only when the right key is input. Many existing logic-locking methods are subject to the powerful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jingbo Zhou , Xinmiao Zhang

This paper studies coding schemes for the $q$-ary symmetric channel based on binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that work for any alphabet size $q=2^m$, $m\in\mathbb{N}$, thus complementing some recently proposed packet-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Claudio Weidmann , Gottfried Lechner

Binary message-passing decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are studied by using extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. The channel delivers hard or soft decisions and the variable node decoder performs all computations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gottfried Lechner , Troels Pedersen , Gerhard Kramer

We show in this work that reinforcement learning can be successfully applied to decoding short to moderate length sparse graph-based channel codes. Specifically, we focus on low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which for example have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Salman Habib , Allison Beemer , Joerg Kliewer

Vast numbers of qubits will be needed for large-scale quantum computing due to the overheads associated with error correction. We present a scheme for low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation based on quantum low-density parity-check…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Lawrence Z. Cohen , Isaac H. Kim , Stephen D. Bartlett , Benjamin J. Brown

Cooperative optimization is a new way for finding global optima of complicated functions of many variables. It has some important properties not possessed by any conventional optimization methods. It has been successfully applied in solving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Xiaofei Huang