Asymptotically Regular LDPC Codes with Linear Distance Growth and Thresholds Close to Capacity
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Summary, in English
Families of asymptotically regular LDPC block code ensembles can be formed by terminating (J, K)-regular protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes. By varying the termination length, we obtain a large selection of LDPC block code ensembles with varying code rates and substantially better iterative decoding thresholds than those of (J, K)-regular LDPC block code ensembles, despite the fact that the terminated ensembles are almost regular. Also, by means of an asymptotic weight enumerator analysis, we show that minimum distance grows linearly with block length for all of the ensembles in these families, i.e., the ensembles are asymptotically good. We find that, as the termination length increases, families of ¿asymptotically regular¿ codes with capacity approaching iterative decoding thresholds and declining minimum distance growth rates are obtained, allowing a code designer to trade-off between distance growth rate and threshold. Further, we show that the thresholds and the distance growth rates can be improved by carefully choosing the component protographs used in the code construction.
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
2010 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA)
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Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Nyckelord
- spatial coupling
- LDPC codes
- LDPC convolutional codes
Conference name
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), 2010
Conference date
2010-01-31 - 2010-02-05
Conference place
San Diego, CA, United States
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Telecommunication Theory
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-1-4244-7012-9