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International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies

An improved LDPC decoding algorithm based on min-sum algorithm

Yue Cao

Published Oct 1, 2011• 9 citations
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Abstract

Low density parity check code is a kind of high-performance linear block code. It has excellent performance which is near the Shannon limit. LDPC has low decoding complexity, free structure and receives extensive attention. The typical decoding algorithm of LDPC is LLR BP algorithm, which is also called “sum-product algorithm”. LLR BP algorithm is the best algorithm at present. But it needs complex computation, which causes great difficulty in its hardware design. To solve this problem, an algorithm that gets approximation of LLR BP algorithm is put forward, which is called min-sum algorithm. Min-sum algorithm greatly reduces the computation and makes the hardware design simpler, but its accuracy has a wide gap with BP algorithm. This article analyzes the reason why min-sum algorithm has errors, and puts forward an improved algorithm called min-sum linear approximation algorithm based on min-sum algorithm.

DOI
10.1109/iscit.2011.6089747

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Low density parity check code is a kind of high-performance linear block code. It has excellent performance which is near the Shannon limit. LDPC has low decoding complexity, free structure and receives extensive attention. The typical decoding algorithm of LDPC is LLR BP algorithm, which is also called “sum-product algorithm”. LLR BP algorithm is the best algorithm at present. But it needs complex computation, which causes great difficulty in its hardware design. To solve this problem, an algorithm that gets approximation of LLR BP algorithm is put forward, which is called min-sum algorithm. Min-sum algorithm greatly reduces the computation and makes the hardware design simpler, but its accuracy has a wide gap with BP algorithm. This article analyzes the reason why min-sum algorithm has errors, and puts forward an improved algorithm called min-sum linear approximation algorithm based on min-sum algorithm.
Low-Density Parity check (LDPC) codes offer high-performance error correction near the Shannon limit which employs large code lengths and some iterations in the decoding process. The conventional decoding algorithm of LDPC is the Log Likelihood Ratio based Belief Propagation (LLR BP) which is also known as the `Sum-Product algorithm' which gives the best decoding performance and requires the most computational complexity and implementations with increased hardware complexity. Another simpler variant of this algorithm is used which is known as `min-sum algorithm' which reduces computational complexity as well as hardware complexity but with reduced accuracy. This paper analyzes the reason min-sum algorithm is more prone to errors when compared to the sum-product algorithm, and puts forward two improved algorithms which improve the performance of the min-sum algorithm with comparable algorithmic complexity.
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Many classes of high-performance Low-density parity check codes are based on parity check matrices composed of permutation sub matrices. The emulation-simulation framework further allows the algorithm and implementation to be iteratively redefined to improve the error floor performance of message passing decoder. Log-Like hood-Ratio (LLR) based Belief-Propagation (BP) algorithm is presented for Low Density Parity Check codes. Numerically accurate representation of check node update computation used in LLR-BP decoding is described. The implementation of Sum-Product algorithm (SPA) within Low Density Parity Check Code (LDPC) decoder is described in this paper and the correction term is used to improve the decoding performance of min-sum algorithm (MSA). Quantization and log-tanh function approximation in sum-product decoder strongly affect which absorbing set dominates in error floor region. For LDPC decoder, bit error rate (BER) decreases with increase in the signal to noise ratio.
To improve performance and reduce computation complexity of the low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, a min-sum based differential decoding algorithm is proposed. The main principle is that the messages passing in the bipartite graph of the codes are the probability differences and the updates of the check nodes adopt min sum algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve about 0.4dB performance gain over the UMP BP-Based decoding algorithm at bit error rate (BER) of under an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. And it can obtain good performance very close to that of the BP decoding algorithm with much lower complexity.
To improve the decoding performance of Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) code,an efficient decoding algorithm based on min-sum algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm analyzes the check node update equation and at the view of probability to form an approximation min-sum equation. It adopts a dynamic normalization factor to improve the decoding performance. Detailed simulation results and comparisons with Belief Propagation(BP) algorithm show that,with little decoding performance loss,the proposed algorithm not only decreases computational load,but also improves decoding efficiency.
Low-Density-Parity-Check Code (LDPC) codes have received great attention recently because of the excellent error-correcting capability and optional error correct code. A new method base on Min-Sum-Plus-Correction-Factor Algorithm using stopping node to reduce computing complexity on Low-Density-Parity-Check Code decoding algorithm is presented in this paper. The improved method shows how to make early decisions to reduce computation complexity of LDPC decoding algorithm in the next iteration under QPSK systems. Simulation results show that computational complexity of LDPC decoding using Stopping node criterion can reduce up to 6 times with maintaining quality level.