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A Simple Check Polytope Projection Penalized Algorithm for ADMM Decoding of LDPC Codes

Huiyang Liu, Pingquan He, Yun Jiang, Qinglin Zhang, Qiaoqiao Xia

Published Jan 1, 2023• 2 citations
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Abstract

ADMM penalized decoding method for Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes can improve the frame error rate (FER) performance than the standard ADMM decoder by adding penalty terms to the objective function. However, penalty parameter optimization of the penalty terms is very difficult and extremely time-consuming. Additionally, the Euclidean projection onto the check polytope is the most complex part of ADMM-based decoding algorithms. In this paper, by dynamically choosing even-vertex in the check polytope closest to the input vector as the approximate projection, a simple and novel check polytope projection penalized algorithm for ADMM decoding is proposed which can avoid the tedious work of penalty parameter optimization and simplify the check polytope projection. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can substantially reduce the projection time while achieving better FER performance when compared with the existing penalized decoding. In particular, the proposed algorithm can save the decoding time by 23% to 41% compared with ADMM-PD-LSA algorithm.

DOI
10.1109/access.2023.3234182

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Simplifying the Euclidean projection onto check polytope is an efficient way to reduce the computational complexity of alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Existing algorithms for check polytope projection require sorting operation or iterative operation, which happens to be the most complex part of the projection. In this letter, a novel and fast projection algorithm is proposed without sorting and iterative operations. In the proposed algorithm, line segment projection replaces check polytope projection to approach approximate Euclidean projection at low computational complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can substantially reduce the projection time while maintaining the frame error rate (FER) performance. In particular, the proposed algorithm can save the average projection time by 43% compared with cut search algorithm (CSA) when the dimension of the input vector is 20.
Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is an efficient implementation of linear programming (LP) decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. By adding penalty terms to the objective function of the LP decoding model, ADMM variable node (VN) penalized decoding can suppress the non-integral solutions and improve the frame error rate (FER) performance in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. In this paper, we propose a novel ADMM check node (CN) penalized decoding algorithm. Codeword solutions which satisfy all parity-check equations will have smaller penalty values than non-codeword solutions, including the non-integral solutions. We discuss the required properties of CN-penalty functions, propose a few functions that satisfy those properties, and study their performance/complexity trade-offs. We also investigate the convergence properties of the proposed algorithm and prove that its performance is independent of the transmitted codeword. Using Monte Carlo simulations and instanton analysis, we then demonstrate that the proposed CN-penalized decoder outperforms ADMM VN penalized decoders in both waterfall and error floor regions. This comes at the expense of some increase in the decoding complexity.
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