IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT)
Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes Based on the Improved Combining Method
Yuan Hua Liu, Mei Ling Zhang, Xin Liang Niu
Abstract
An improved combining method based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem is proposed for constructing much better quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes. By carefully permuting the block columns of the parity check matrices of the component codes, a lot of QC-LDPC codes with much less short cycles and better performance can be designed. Simulation results show that at a BER of 10-6, the constructed QC-LDPC codes outperform those designed by the existing combining methods by about 1.2 dB.