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Analytical Solution of Covariance Evolution for Irregular LDPC Codes

T. Nozaki, Student Member, Kenta Kasai, Kohichi Sakaniwa

Published Aug 16, 2016• 6 citations
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Abstract

A scaling law developed by Amraoui et al. is a powerful technique to estimate the block error probability of finite length low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Solving a system of differential equations called covariance evolution is a method to obtain the scaling parameter. However, the covariance evolution has not been analytically solved. In this paper, we present the analytical solution of the covariance evolution for irregular LDPC code ensembles.

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A scaling law developed by Amraoui et al. is a powerful technique to estimate the block error probability of finite length low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Solving a system of differential equations called covariance evolution is a method to obtain the scaling parameter. However, the covariance evolution has not been analytically solved. In this paper, we present the analytical solution of the covariance evolution for irregular LDPC code ensembles.
The covariance evolution is a system of differential equations with respect to the covariance of the number of edges connecting to the nodes of each residual degree. Solving the covariance evolution, we can derive distributions of the number of check nodes of residual degree 1, which helps us to estimate the block error probability for finite-length LDPC code. Amraoui et al. resorted to numerical computations to solve the covariance evolution. In this paper, we give the analytical solution of the covariance evolution.
Communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and belief propagation (BP) decoding is considered. The average bit error probability of an irregular LDPC code ensemble after a fixed number of iterations converges to a limit, which is calculated via density evolution, as the blocklength n tends to infinity. The difference between the bit error probability with blocklength n and the large-blocklength limit behaves asymptotically like ¿/n, where the coefficient ¿ depends on the ensemble, the number of iterations and the erasure probability of the BEC. In, ¿ is calculated for regular ensembles. In this paper, ¿ for irregular expurgated ensembles is derived. It is demonstrated that convergence of numerical estimates of ¿ to the analytic result is significantly fast for irregular unexpurgated ensembles.