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IEE Proceedings - Communications

Improved weighted bit-flipping algorithm for decoding LDPC Codes

Mengxiao Shan, Chunming Zhao, Ming Jiang

Published Jan 1, 2005• 36 citations
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Abstract

The paper presents an improvement of the weighted bit-flipping (WBF) decoding algorithm for LDPC codes proposed by Liu and Pados (2003). Simulation results show that the improved WBF algorithm provides about 0.25 dB coding gain over the Liu–Pados WBF algorithm. Also included in the paper is a simplified loop-detection algorithm, which is much easier to implement than the one proposed by Liu and Pados. The proposed WBF algorithm is particularly effective for decoding LDPC codes whose parity check matrices have large row/column weights such as finite geometry LDPC codes.

DOI
10.1049/ip-com:20045118

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Two simple and efficient weighted bit flipping(WBF)decoding algorithms for low density paritycheck(LDPC)codes are proposed,in which the sum of the variable nodes' magnitude is introduced to compute the reliability of the parity checks.Simulation results shows that the performance of one of the improved scheme is better than that of traditional WBF and modified WBF(MWBF)algorithms about 1.65dB and 1.31dB at BER of 10-5 over an additive white Gaussian noise channel,respectively,while the average number of decoding iterations is significantly reduced.
We present a major improvement to the modified weighted bit flipping (MWBF) decoding algorithm for low density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We improve the flipping criterion by introducing a more efficient method for computing the reliability of the parity checks. We derive an approximate theoretical expression for the weighting factor and demonstrate its consistency with simulation results. The improved MWBF algorithm achieves a noticeable gain over the MWBF algorithm with only a modest increase in computational complexity.
Abstract We propose a method to substantially reduce the computational complexity of iterative decoders of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes which are based on the weighted bit-flipping (WBF) algorithm. In this method, the WBF-based decoders are modified so that the flipping function is calculated only over a reduced set of variable nodes. An explicit expression for the achieved complexity gain is provided and it is shown that for a code of block length N, the decoding complexity is reduced from O(N2) to O(N). Moreover, we derive an upper bound for the difference in the frame error rate of the reduced-set decoders and the original WBF-based decoders, and it is shown that the error performances of the two decoders are essentially the same.