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This work proves new results on the ability of binary Reed-Muller codes to decode from random errors and erasures. We obtain these results by proving improved bounds on the weight distribution of Reed-Muller codes of high degrees.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ori Sberlo , Amir Shpilka

The bit-error threshold of the standard ensemble of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is known to be close to capacity, if there is a non-zero fraction of degree-two bit nodes. However, the degree-two bit nodes preclude the possibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Arunkumar Subramanian , Andrew Thangaraj

This paper focuses on finite-dimensional upper and lower bounds on decodable thresholds of Zm and binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, assuming belief propagation decoding on memoryless channels. A concrete framework is presented,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chih-Chun Wang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

A recent line of work has focused on the use of low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes for lossy source coding. In this paper, wedevelop a generic technique for deriving lower bounds on the rate-distortion functions of binary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-18 A. G. Dimakis , M. J. Wainwright , K. Ramchandran

In this paper, we first present the asymptotic performance of serially concatenated low-density generator-matrix (SCLDGM) codes for binary input additive white Gaussian noise channels using discretized density evolution (DDE). We then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Amrit Kharel , Lei Cao

Spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes show an outstanding performance under the low-complexity belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. They exhibit a peculiar convergence phenomenon above the BP threshold of the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Vahid Aref , Laurent Schmalen , Stephan ten Brink

The complexity-performance trade-off is a fundamental aspect of the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this paper, we consider LDPC codes for the binary erasure channel (BEC), use code rate for performance metric, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vahid Jamali , Yasser Karimian , Johannes Huber , Mahmoud Ahmadian

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

It has previously been shown that ensembles of terminated protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have a typical minimum distance that grows linearly with block length and that they are capable of achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 David. G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello,

The paper introduces ensembles of accumulate-repeat-accumulate (ARA) codes which asymptotically achieve capacity on the binary erasure channel (BEC) with {\em bounded complexity}, per information bit, of encoding and decoding. It also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Henry D. Pfister , Igal Sason

In this paper, we design the optimal rate capacity approaching irregular Low-Density Parity-Check code ensemble over Binary Erasure Channel, by using practical Semi-Definite Programming approach. Our method does not use any relaxation or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-28 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian , M. Reza Peyghami

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

The question whether RM codes are capacity-achieving is a long-standing open problem in coding theory that was recently answered in the affirmative for transmission over erasure channels [1], [2]. Remarkably, the proof does not rely on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Shrinivas Kudekar , Santhosh Kumar , Marco Mondelli , Henry D. Pfister , Rüdiger Urbanke

In this letter, we present a hybrid iterative decoder for non-binary low density parity check (LDPC) codes over binary erasure channel (BEC), based on which the recursion of the erasure probability is derived to design non-binary LDPC codes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Yang Yu , Wen Chen , Lili Wei

Recently, it has been observed that terminated low-density-parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes (or spatially-coupled codes) appear to approach capacity universally across the class of binary memoryless channels. This is facilitated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-12 Phong S. Nguyen , Arvind Yedla , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

This paper considers the performance of Reed-Muller (RM) codes transmitted over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels under bitwise maximum-a-posteriori (bit-MAP) decoding. Its main result is that, for a fixed BMS channel, the family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Galen Reeves , Henry D. Pfister

While iterative quantizers based on low-density generator-matrix (LDGM) codes have been shown to be able to achieve near-ideal distortion performance with comparatively moderate block length and computational complexity requirements, their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Qingchuan Wang , Chen He , Lingge Jiang

An ensemble of LDPC convolutional codes with parity-check matrices composed of permutation matrices is considered. The convergence of the iterative belief propagation based decoder for terminated convolutional codes in the ensemble is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael Lentmaier , Arvind Sridharan , Kamil Sh. Zigangirov , Daniel J. Costello

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes (or spatially-coupled codes) were recently shown to approach capacity on the binary erasure channel (BEC) and binary-input memoryless symmetric channels. The mechanism behind this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arvind Yedla , Yung-Yih Jian , Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister

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