Journal of Zhejiang University of Technology
The research on quantization issues of quasi-cycle low-density parity check codes based on BP algorithm
XU Zhi-jian
Abstract
The quantization issues of the belief propagation(BP)algorithm for the quasi-cycle low-density parity code(QC-LDPC)of 802.16estandard are studied in this paper.We consider the quantization problem of input signal and mid-variables from the following three aspects:the variables range,bits and methods of the quantization and make a performance simulation and contrast..Then,a innovative and efficient scheme of quantization is proposed in this paper.The quasi-cycle low-density parity code(QC-LDPC)is used here.It has a better performance and it is beneficial for implementation of hardware.Assuming the input is equiprobable signal and the maximum number of iteration is 10,comparing to the standard(non-quantization)BP algorithm,the proposed scheme keeps the lower bit error rate(BER)by means of the MATLAB simulation meanwhile the hardware complexity is greatly reduced.