QC-LDPC-C (Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity-Check Convolutional) codes are with low encoding and decoding complexity and can achieve decoding performance approaching the Shannon limit. However, the construction of the parity check matrices need to be free of the length-4 cycles, and the computational complexity of direct construction will increase exponentially without considering the characteristics of the matrices. The construction for QC-LDPC-C codes with periodic bit-filling method is proposed. With the periodicity of the base check matrix, the proposed method firstly fills the deterministic submatrices to realize fast encoding; then it avoids all possible length-4 cycles by periodic filling in the construction of random submatrices. Thus the base check matrix without cycles of length-4 can be obtained, and the girth of expanded check matrix is at least 6. LDPC-C codes with different parameters are used to compare with the constructed QC-LDPC codes. Experimental results show that the codes constructed with proposed method can achieve better performance and lower encoding and decoding complexity.
QC-LDPC-C (Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity-Check Convolutional) codes are with low encoding and decoding complexity and can achieve decoding performance approaching the Shannon limit. However, the construction of the parity check matrices need to be free of the length-4 cycles, and the computational complexity of direct construction will increase exponentially without considering the characteristics of the matrices. The construction for QC-LDPC-C codes with periodic bit-filling method is proposed. With the periodicity of the base check matrix, the proposed method firstly fills the deterministic submatrices to realize fast encoding; then it avoids all possible length-4 cycles by periodic filling in the construction of random submatrices. Thus the base check matrix without cycles of length-4 can be obtained, and the girth of expanded check matrix is at least 6. LDPC-C codes with different parameters are used to compare with the constructed QC-LDPC codes. Experimental results show that the codes constructed with proposed method can achieve better performance and lower encoding and decoding complexity.
The existing design of quasi-cyclic(QC) low-density parity-check(LDPC) codes has not considered the problems of short length girths and the rows' dependency.The first problem leads to the BER performance of QC LDPC codes to be much poorer than that of randomly constructed LDPC codes,while the second problem leads to the difficulty of construction of generator matrices from parity-check matrices.To solve the first problem,the constraint conditions for designing the QC LDPC codes are proposed,and the dimension and shift factors of the circulant matrices of the given sparse parity-check matrix are adjusted according to the test results of both girth 4 and girth 6.To solve the second problem,an approach of irregular QC LDPC codes is proposed.The proposed approach is to replace some sub-matrices by zero matrices and identity matrices at special positions in the given sparse parity-check matrix so as to get a nonsingular square matrix for the construction of the generator matrix.Though adopting bidiagonal submatrices in parity-check matrix can solve the rows' dependency problem,many code words with low weights will occur,which leads to the BER performance can not be better by increasing code lengths.Examples are provided for the proposed design of QC LDPC codes,and computer simulation results show that the proposed QC LDPC codes achieve good BER performance.
There is an important breakthrough in the field of forward error correction techniques, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. These codes have potential to approach the Shannon limit with reliable performance on a given channel, known as the channel capacity. Recently, researchers pay much more attention towards LDPC codes because its performance is better than Turbo codes. However, the LDPC code is the best when it is an irregular code and uses with a very large block-length. Although, the short block-length LDPC codes perform not so well, they are easy to implement in various practical applications. Therefore, there is still a demand of new development on the encoding side of LDPC codes for various ranges of code rate and code length so as to capable of using in many applications.This thesis proposes the development of quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes for column weight 3. In the first part of this thesis, we propose a new construction algorithm of QC-LDPC codes for medium to large block-length by combining QC-LDPC codes of small block-length as their component codes, via Chinese remainder theorem (CRT). Such component codes were constructed by permuting each column block sequentially to attain the desire local girth. After combining all component codes to generate an expanded parity-check matrix, the resulting girth is greater than or at least equal to the maximum girth of the component codes. Simulation results show that our proposed construction method of the parity-check matrix significantly outperforms the other well-known existing methods in terms of low error-floor, simple structure, high performance, and can reduce encoding complexity.In addition, this thesis also proposes two new construction methods for QC-LDPC codes, namely a base matrix method and a subtraction based method. A base matrix based method is a simple, less computational complexity method for constructing the exponent matrix (3, K) of girth 8, 10 and 12 of QC-LDPC codes. Another method is a subtraction method, which has a similar exponent matrix as a base matrix method and has a girth at least 8. Results indicate that the LDPC codes constructed from these two methods have flexibility for arbitrary block-column length K and have a similar BER performance if compared to existing methods.
Short cycles in the Tanner graph of a given LDPC code has negative effect on the performance of iterative decoding. To improve the performance, we presented an approach for constructing Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) codes whose associated Tanner graph has large girth and a small amount of short cycles. Each column block of the parity check matrix was designed by adding circulant permutation sub-matrices one after another, provided the current parity check matrix has minimal number of short cycles. The condition for the proposed QC-LDPC codes to have girth at least 6 was also analyzed. Regular and irregular QC-LDPC codes with various lengths and rates can be constructed. Simulations show that the proposed QC-LDPC codes have less short cycles and better performance than existing progressive edge growth based QC-LDPC codes.
Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) codes have practical significance in the field of engineering, thus their construction algorithm is a hot issue in the field of LDPC codes. Based on existing construction methods, particularly the method based on Progressive Edge-Growth (PEG) algorithm, a new construction method of shift matrix is proposed. It can effectively avoid the copy of cycle structures, especially short cycles in base matrix after extension. Besides, it also relieves the time cost caused by random search, and greatly improves the length of cycles when compared with algorithms based on methods such as quadratic congruence and arithmetic sequence. Those algorithms can only eliminate short cycles with length 4, while our method can provide QC-LDPC codes without length 6 at least. Cycle analysis and simulation results show that the newly constructed QC-LDPC codes have good cycle structure and error correction performance.
Due to quasi-cyclic structure of parity-check matrices, Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) codes reduce hardware requirements, and thus they have a higher practical value than random LDPC codes. This paper proposes an improved construction method of QC-LDPC based on PEG Algorithm, and the girth of the QC-LDPC codes has an increase of 2. Firstly, a base matrix is generated by the PEG algorithm, and then the base matrix is expanded using the unit circle permutation matrix, at the same time, the short loop of the base matrix is eliminated. This approach has the advantages of the PEG algorithm and the QC-LDPC codes, and simulation results show that bit error rate (BER) performance of the QC-LDPC codes presented in this paper is the same as or exceeds the one of randomly constructed LDPC codes.
In this paper, we propose a novel method with low complexity for constructing quasi-cyclic LDPC codes. The algorithm chooses every circulant permutation matrix sequentially, and makes sure that the current circulant permutation matrix forms no cycles of length 4 and 6 with the existent matrices, finally a family of (3,L) QC-LDPC codes with girth at least 8 is obtained. The main complexity of the algorithm is checking cycles of length 6, the number of which is no more than L2. Simulation results show that, when block length is 1008 and using the iterative belief propagation decoding, the LDPC code constructed by the proposed algorithm out performs the random code about 0.1dB at the bit-error-rate of $ 10^{ - 5}$.