Hybrid hard-decision iterative decoding of regular low-density parity-check codes
Pirouz Zarrinkhat, Amir H. Banihashemi
Hybrid decoding is to combine different iterative decoding algorithms with the aim of improving error performance or decoding complexity. In this work, we introduce "time-invariant" hybrid (HTI) algorithms, and show that for regular low-density parity-check codes and binary message-passing algorithms, HTIalgorithms perform remarkably better than their constituent algorithms. We also show that compared to "switch-type" hybrid algorithms, such as Gallager's algorithm B, where a comparable improvement is obtained by switching between different iterative decoding algorithms, HTIalgorithms are far less sensitive to channel conditions and thus can be practically more attractive.
International Conference on Communications•Jan 1, 2004•5 citations