Design of Improved Quasi-Cyclic Protograph-Based Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for Short Block-Lengths

Autor:	Ranganathan, Sudarsan V. S., Divsalar, Dariush, Wesel, Richard D.
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Computer Science - Information Theory
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Protograph-based Raptor-like low-density parity-check codes (PBRL codes) are a recently proposed family of easily encodable and decodable rate-compatible LDPC (RC-LDPC) codes. These codes have an excellent iterative decoding threshold and performance across all design rates. PBRL codes designed thus far, for both long and short block-lengths, have been based on optimizing the iterative decoding threshold of the protograph of the RC code family at various design rates. In this work, we propose a design method to obtain better quasi-cyclic (QC) RC-LDPC codes with PBRL structure for short block-lengths (of a few hundred bits). We achieve this by maximizing an upper bound on the minimum distance of any QC-LDPC code that can be obtained from the protograph of a PBRL ensemble. The obtained codes outperform the original PBRL codes at short block-lengths by significantly improving the error floor behavior at all design rates. Furthermore, we identify a reduction in complexity of the design procedure, facilitated by the general structure of a PBRL ensemble. Comment: Longer version of a submission to 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07531 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv