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In this paper, we propose a class of finite alphabet iterative decoder (FAID), called mutual information-maximizing quantized belief propagation (MIM-QBP) decoder, for decoding regular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Our decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Xuan He , Kui Cai , Zhen Mei , Peng Kang , Xiaohu Tang

Quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes are among the leading candidates to realize error-corrected quantum memories with low qubit overhead. Potentially high encoding rates and large distance relative to their block size make them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Josias Old , Juval Bechar , Markus Müller , Sascha Heußen

We consider a special family of SC-LDPC codes, that is, time-invariant LDPCC codes, which are known in the literature for a long time. Codes of this kind are usually designed by starting from QC block codes, and applying suitable unwrapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Marco Baldi , Massimo Battaglioni , Franco Chiaraluce , Giovanni Cancellieri

The error correction performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes under iterative message-passing decoding is degraded by the presence of certain harmful objects existing in their Tanner graph representation. Depending on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Massimo Battaglioni , Franco Chiaraluce , Marco Baldi , David Mitchell

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haizheng Li , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

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

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to reduce error floors in quantum error correction using non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We identify and classify cycle structures in the parity-check matrix where estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Kenta Kasai

One of the challenges often faced with wireless communication systems is its limited range and data-rate. Distributed Transmit Beamforming (DTB) techniques are being developed to address these two issues to provide reliable connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-18 Ismail Shakeel , Ishtiaq Ahmad , Hajime Suzuki

We study Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding on block-fading (BF) Relay Channels. We consider two users that employ coded cooperation, a variant of decode-and-forward with a smaller outage probability than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Dieter Duyck , Joseph J. Boutros , Marc Moeneclaey

Post-selection strategies that discard low-confidence computational results can significantly improve the effective fidelity of quantum error correction at the cost of reduced acceptance rates, which can be particularly useful for offline…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Seok-Hyung Lee , Lucas H. English , Stephen D. Bartlett

We examine LDPC codes decoded using linear programming (LP). Four contributions to the LP framework are presented. First, a new method of tightening the LP relaxation, and thus improving the LP decoder, is proposed. Second, we present an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Burshtein , Idan Goldenberg

We present a new family of low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes that can be designed using ordered sets of progressive differences. We study their properties and define a subset of codes in this class that have some desirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Giovanni Cancellieri , Franco Chiaraluce

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

We present the Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) forward error correction algorithm adapted for the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol in a form readily applied by developers. A sparse parity check matrix is required for the LDPC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Alan Mink , Anastase Nakassis

Layered decoding is well appreciated in Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder implementation since it can achieve effectively high decoding throughput with low computation complexity. This work, for the first time, addresses low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Zhiqiang Cui , Zhongfeng Wang , Xinmiao Zhang

Decoding low-density parity-check codes is critical in many current technologies, such as fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks and satellite communications. The belief propagation algorithm allows for fast decoding due to the low density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Sheila M. Perez-Garcia , Ashley Montanaro

This paper investigates decoder diversity architectures for short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, based on recurrent neural network (RNN) models of the belief-propagation (BP) algorithm. We propose a new approach to achieve decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Joachim Rosseel , Valérian Mannoni , Inbar Fijalkow , Valentin Savin

This paper proposes a quasi-belief propagation decoder for BCH codes that systematically integrates domain knowledge--specifically, channel noise variance, the cyclic property of the codes, and the deliberate redundancy in their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Guangwen Li

Quantum error correction codes with non-local connections such as quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) incur lower overhead and outperform surface codes on large-scale devices. These codes are not applicable on current superconducting…

Error correction allows a quantum computer to preserve states long beyond the decoherence time of its physical qubits. Key to any scheme of error correction is the decoding algorithm, which estimates the error state of qubits from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Stasiu Wolanski , Ben Barber