LDPC code is a powerful error correcting code and has been applied to many advanced communication systems. The prosperity of software radio has motivated us to investigate the implementation of LDPC decoders on processors. In this paper, we estimate and compare complexity and power consumption of LDPC decoding algorithms running on general purpose processors. Using the estimation results, we sh...

In this paper, we propose to leverage the simple and explicit parity checks inherent in low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes to realize dominant error events detection without code rate penalty. This is enabled by enforcing a very weak constraint on LDPC code parity check matrix structure. Such a constraint can be readily satisfied by most structured LDPC codes ever studied in the open literat...

Sparse graph-based codes such as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have revolutionized coding theory and have been proposed for many emerging communication and storage systems due to their excellent performance. A substantial amount of research has been devoted to the study of binary LDPC codes. In contrast, non-binary LDPC codes had been deemed too complex and consequently have not been st...

For an arbitrary (3,L) QC-LDPC code with a girth of twelve, a tight lower bound of the consecutive lengths is proposed. For an arbitrary length above the bound the resultant code necessarily has a girth of twelve, and for the length meeting the bound, the corresponding code inevitably has a girth smaller than twelve. The conclusion can play an important role in the proofs of the existence of la...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) code, have become most popular, promising near-optimal error correction code (ECC). Trade off between the performance and complexity of LDPC decoders is of paramount interest to communication engineers and researchers. The VLSI implementation of LDPC decoder is a big challenge. VLSI implementations has many difficulties to achieve as lower error floors, reduced i...

We design multilevel coding (MLC) with a semi bitinterleaved coded modulation (BICM) scheme based on low density parity check (LDPC) codes. Different from traditional designs, we joint the MLC and BICM together by using the Gray mapping, which is suitable to transmit the data over several equivalent channels with different code rates. To perform well at signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) very close to...

A turbo block code (TBC) technique for improving the performance of a multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system in terms of bit error rate (BER) is proposed in this paper. The objective of this work is to develop a coding scheme that generates low BER code-words. By implementing a time domain TBC, designed using powerful low density parity check (LDPC) code, the BER performan...

Strong rate-compatible codes is important to achieve high throughput in hybrid automatic repeat request with forward error correction (ARQ/FEC) systems in packet data transmission. This paper focuses on the construction of efficient rate-compatible low density parity check (RC-LDPC) codes over a wide rate range. The conventional approach of puncturing is first studied. Analysis on the code ense...

A numerical method has recently been presented to determine the noise thresholds of low density parity-check (LDPC) codes that employ the message passing decoding algorithm on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. In this paper, we extend this technique to the uncorrelated flat Rayleigh fading channel. Using a nonlinear code optimization technique, we optimized irregular LDPC codes ...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is shown to significantly outperform LDPC coded on-off keying (OOK) over the atmospheric turbulence channel in terms of both coding gain and spectral efficiency. In the regime of strong turbulence at a bit-error rate of 10(-5), the coding gain improvement of the LDPC coded single-side band unclipped-...