IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences
Weight Distributions of Non-binary LDPC Codes
Kenta Kasai, Charly Poulliat, David Declercq, Kohichi Sakaniwa
Abstract
In this paper, we study the average symbol and bit-weight distributions for ensembles of non-binary low-density parity-check codes defined on GF(2p). Moreover, we derive the asymptotic exponential growth rate of the weight distributions in the limit of large codelength. Interestingly, we show that the normalized typical minimum distance does not monotonically increase with the size of the field.