IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
Asymptotic bit error probability of LDPC codes for the binary erasure channel with finite number of iterations
Ryuhei Mori, Kenta Kasai, Tomoharu Shibuya, Kohichi Sakaniwa
Abstract
We consider communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and belief propagation (BP) decoding. Furthermore, a gap between the bit error probability after finite number of iterations for finite block length n and that for infinite block length is asymptotically α/n, where α denotes a speci..c constant determined by a degree distribution, a number of iterations and erasure probability. Our main result is to derive an ef..cient algorithm for calculating α for regular ensembles.