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IEEE Communications Letters

Deterministic Girth-Eight QC-LDPC Codes with Large Column Weight

Jianhua Zhang, Guohua Zhang

Published Mar 11, 2014• 31 citations
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Abstract

For any row weight L, several novel classes of (J = 5, L) and (J = 6, L) quasi-cyclic LDPC codes are deterministically constructed with girth eight. From these results, it is proved that (5, L) QC-LDPC codes with girth eight exist for any circulant permutation matrix (CPM) size P ≥ (2L + 3)(L - 1) + 1, and that girth-eight (6, L) QC-LDPC codes exist for any P ≥ 2(L+5)(L-1)+1. The two novel bounds remarkably improve the existing bounds of L2(L-1) + 1 and (L2+1)(L-1)+1, respectively. Moreover, for any column weight J and any row weight L, a construction for (J,L) QC-LDPC codes with girth eight is also proposed. This is the first deterministic and systematic construction which can generate girth-eight QC-LDPC codes with J ≥ 7.

DOI
10.1109/lcomm.2014.030114.132853

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Enabling the parity-check matrices to have a large girth is an efficient method to improve the decoding performance for many binary and non-binary QC-LDPC codes.A new explicit framework to construct QC-LDPC codes with girth at least eight is proposed,without any computer search procedures.The QC-LDPC codes constructed by the framework not only have a girth at least eight,but also possess an advantage of consecutive cyclic permutation matrix(CPM) sizes.The framework includes two steps:first,a parity-check matrix is explicitly constructed with a girth at least eight under an infinite CPM size;second,the tight lower bound of consecutive CPM sizes is precisely calculated directly from the corresponding shift matrix of the parity-check matrix,by employing a new girth property discovered by this paper.
For any row weight L and any circulant permutation matrix size P > ( L − 1) 2 + b 0 ( L − 1) ( b 0 = L − 2 + mod( L ,2)), a class of (3, L ) quasi‐cyclic (QC) low‐density parity‐check (LDPC) codes is explicitly constructed with girth eight, based on the quadratic function f ( x ) = x 2 + bx and its derivative, where b is either of the two integers { b 0 , − b 0 − 2( L − 2)}. Compared with a similar construction from the so‐called difference sequence, the proposed construction is not only much more simple in concept, but also completely deterministic in the sense that no computer search or computing is required. Simulation results show that the new codes significantly outperform the girth‐eight codes constructed by the earliest‐sequence‐based method.
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