Analysis of error floors of generalized non-binary LDPC codes over q-ary memoryless symmetric channels
T. Nozaki, Kenta Kasai, Kohichi Sakaniwa
In this paper, we compare the decoding error rates in the error floors for non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the general linear group with those for non-binary LDPC codes over finite field transmitted over the q-ary memoryless symmetric channel under belief propagation decoding. To analyze non-binary LDPC codes defined over both general linear group GL(m, F2) and finite field F2m, we investigate non-binary LDPC codes defined over GL(m3, F2m4). We propose a method to lower the error floors for non-binary LDPC codes. In this analysis, we see that the optimized non-binary LDPC codes defined over general linear group have the same decoding performance in the error floors as those defined over finite field. The non-binary LDPC codes defined over general linear group have more choices of the labels in the edges which satisfy the condition for the optimization.
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)•Jul 1, 2012•5 citations