Telecommunication Engineering
An Improved Method for Constructing QC-LDPC Codes Based on Chinese Remainder Theorem
Liu Yuan-hu
Abstract
An improved combining method for designing quasi- cyclic low- density parity- check( QC-LDPC) codes based on Chinese Remainder Theorem( CRT) is proposed to improve the error- correcting performance by increasing the girth and decreasing the number of short cycles. With the CRT combining method,the difficult problem of designing QC- LDPC codes with girth g is translated into a task of designing one component code with girth g. By properly permuting the column blocks of parity- check matrices of other component codes,a lot of QC- LDPC codes with much shorter cycles and better performance can be designed,which are more suitable for communication systems with request of high reliability. Simulations show that compared with existing CRT- based QC- LDPC codes,the proposed QC- LDPC codes have much shorter cycles and obtain 1. 2 d B coding gain at bit error rate( BER) of 10- 6.