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We introduce the Scattered Extrinsic Information Transfer (S-EXIT) chart as a tool for optimizing degree profiles of short length Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes under iterative decoding. As degree profile optimization is typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

We give a construction of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes with near-optimal rate-distance tradeoff and efficient list decoding up to the Johnson bound in polynomial time. Previous constructions of list decodable good distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Thiago Bergamaschi , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Tushant Mittal , Shashank Srivastava , Madhur Tulsiani

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their high encoding rates and distances. However, implementing logical operations using qLDPC codes presents significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ze-Chuan Liu , Chong-Yuan Xu , Yong Xu

The near channel performance of Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) has motivated its wide applications. Iterative decoding of LDPC codes provides significant implementation challenges as the complexity grows with the code size. Recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Sudeep Kanur , Georgios Georgakarakos , Antti Siirilä , Jérémie Lagravière , Kristian Nybom , Sébastien Lafond , Johan Lilius

Recently introduced Fair-Density Parity-Check (FDPC) codes, targeting high-rate applications, offer superior error-correction performance (ECP) compared to 5G Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes, given the same number of message-passing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Mohsen Moradi , Sheida Rabeti , Hessam Mahdavifar

We show how the iterative decoding threshold of tailbiting spatially coupled (SC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles can be improved over the binary input additive white Gaussian noise channel by allowing the use of different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Thomas Jerkovits , Gianluigi Liva , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

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

Although quantum key distribution (QKD) comes from the development of quantum theory, the implementation of a practical QKD system does involve a lot of classical process, such as key reconciliation and privacy amplification, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Mo Li , Chun-Mei Zhang , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Wei Chen , Chuan Wang , Zheng-Fu Han

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are constructed by coupling many regular low-density parity-check codes in a chain. The decoding chain of SC codes stops when facing burst erasures. This problem can not be overcome by increasing coupling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Ryunosuke Ohashi , Kenta Kasai , Keigo Takeuchi

In this paper, we introduce an efficient iterative solver for the joint linear-programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and finite-state channels (FSCs). In particular, we extend the approach of iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Byung-Hak Kim , Henry D. Pfister

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that is gaining increasing attention. Multi-dimensional (MD) SC codes are constructed by connecting copies of an SC code via relocations in order to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

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

Raptor codes are rateless codes that achieve the capacity on the binary erasure channels. However the maximum degree of optimal output degree distribution is unbounded. This leads to a computational complexity problem both at encoders and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Kosuke Sakata , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

Spatially-coupled LDPC codes are known to have excellent asymptotic properties. Much less is known regarding their finite-length performance. We propose a scaling law to predict the error probability of finite-length spatially-coupled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Pablo M. Olmos , Rüdiger Urbanke

Since the discovery of turbo codes 20 years ago and the subsequent re-discovery of low-density parity-check codes a few years later, the field of channel coding has experienced a number of major advances. Up until that time, code designers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniel J. Costello, , Lara Dolecek , Thomas E. Fuja , Joerg Kliewer , David G. M. Mitchell , Roxana Smarandache

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

To alleviate the suboptimal performance of belief propagation (BP) decoding of short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, a plethora of improved decoding algorithms has been proposed over the last two decades. Many of these methods can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Felix Krieg , Jannis Clausius , Marvin Geiselhart , Stephan ten Brink

Achieving high image quality is an important aspect in an increasing number of wireless multimedia applications. These applications require resource efficient error correction hardware to detect and correct errors introduced by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty , Syed Mahfuzul Aziz

In this paper, we introduce two new methods of mitigating decoder error propagation for low-latency sliding window decoding (SWD) of spatially coupled low density parity check (SC-LDPC) codes. Building on the recently introduced idea of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello