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Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, which were first introduced as LDPC convolutional codes, have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding. This phenomenon is now…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

We solve the problem of designing powerful low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding for the block-fading channel. We first study the case of maximum-likelihood decoding, and show that the design criterion is rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Joseph J. Boutros , Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Ezio Biglieri , Gilles Zemor

We analyze the finite-length performance of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes under window decoding over the binary erasure channel. In particular, we propose a refinement of the scaling law by Olmos and Urbanke for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Roman Sokolovskii , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

The finite-length performance of spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes is strongly affected by short cycle configurations and the harmful structures induced by them. This paper studies SC-LDPC code design directly at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lei Huang

We propose a new low-density parity-check code construction scheme based on 2-lifts. The proposed codes have an advantage of admitting efficient hardware implementations. With the motivation of designing codes with low error floors, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

This paper presents a combinatorial construction of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from difference covering arrays. While the original construction by Gallagher was by randomly allocating bits in a sparse parity-check matrix, over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-23 D. Donovan , A. Rao , E. Şule Yazıcı

A circulant-based spatially-coupled (SC) code is constructed by partitioning the circulants in the parity-check matrix of a block code into several components and piecing copies of these components in a diagonal structure. By connecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Lev Tauz , Lara Dolecek

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes received much attention recently due to their capacity-approaching performance. The iterative message-passing algorithm is a widely adopted decoding algorithm for LDPC codes \cite{Kschischang01}. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Xudong Ma , En-hui Yang

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

In this paper we study the iterative decoding threshold performance of non-binary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (NB-SC-LDPC) code ensembles for both the binary erasure channel (BEC) and the binary-input additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lai Wei , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , David G. M. Mitchell , Thomas E. Fuja , Daniel J. Costello

Because of their excellent asymptotic and finite-length performance, spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check codes that is gaining increasing attention. Multi-dimensional (MD) SC codes are constructed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Canberk İrimağzı , Ata Tanrıkulu , Ahmed Hareedy

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

We investigate random spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code ensembles over finite fields. Under different variable-node edge-spreading rules, the random Tanner graphs of several coupled ensembles are defined by multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiaxin Lyu , Guanghui He

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

It is widely accepted that quantum error correction is essential for realizing large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recent experiments have demonstrated error correction codes operating below threshold, primarily using local planar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Eliška Greplová

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes which are known as QC-LDPC codes, have many applications due to their simple encoding implementation by means of cyclic shift registers. In this paper, we construct QC-LDPC codes from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Hassan Khodaiemehr , Dariush Kiani

Cyclic liftings are proposed to lower the error floor of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The liftings are designed to eliminate dominant trapping sets of the base code by removing the short cycles which form the trapping sets. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-24 Reza Asvadi , Amir H. Banihashemi , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari

This paper proposes a new method of constructing compact fully-connected Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity Check (QC-LDPC) codes with girth g = 8, 10, and 12. The originality of the proposed method is to impose constraints on the exponent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Alireza Tasdighi , Emmanuel Boutillon

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are among the most prominent error-correction schemes. They find application to fortify various modern storage, communication, and computing systems. Protograph-based (PB) LDPC codes offer many degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

This study proposes an explicit construction method for quantum quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes with a girth of 12. The proposed method designs parity-check matrices that maximize the girth while maintaining an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daiki Komoto , Kenta Kasai