Signal Processing
Construction of QC-LDPC Codes based on Cyclic Groups
Zhang Er-yang
Abstract
Encoding of computer-generated random low-density parity-check(LDPC) codes can be rather complex.QC-LDPC codes have encoding advantage over random LDPC codes.Encoding of an QC-LDPC code can be implemented using shift-registers with linear complexity.The usual algorithm for the decoding of LDPC codes is the iterative sum-product algorithm(SPA),operating on a Tanner graph of the code.It is well known that cycle-free Tanner graph with SPA algorithm yeilds optimal decoding.The girth of the cycle -free Tanner graph is infinite.In this paper,we present an algebraic method for constructing binary QC-LDPC codes based on the rowcolumn constraint.The codes constructed by this method have girths at least 6.Experimental results show that the constructed LDPC codes decoded with SPA over the AWGN channel can perform as well as standard LDPC codes in terms of bit-error probability and block error probability.