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arXiv:1401.2120

Upper Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Quasi-Cyclic LDPC codes Revisited

Alexey Frolov, Pavel S. Rybin

Published Jan 9, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

Two upper bounds on the minimum distance of type-1 quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC LDPC) codes are derived. The necessary condition is given for the minimum code distance of such codes to grow linearly with the code length.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1401.2120

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