Intensity reflection coefficient based Min-Sum decoding for Low Density Parity Check Codes

Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) give groundbreaking performance which is known to approach Shannon´s limits for sufficiently large block length. Historically and recently, LDPC have been known to give superior performance than concatenated coding. In the following paper, a proposal to modify the standard Min-Sum (MS) algorithm for decoding LDPC codes is presented. This is done by introduction of a factor, intensity reflection coefficient (IRC) in the check to bit node updating process. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms are effective in imparting a better performance in terms of a lower bit error rate (BER) at low to medium signal to noise ratio (SNR) when compared to the traditional MS or Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm while adding a minimum amount of complexity.