• DocumentCode
    1185060
  • Title

    Graph-theoretic construction of low-density parity-check codes

  • Author

    Djurdjevic, Ivana ; Lin, Shu ; Abdel-Ghaffar, Khaled

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    171
  • Lastpage
    173
  • Abstract
    This article presents a graph-theoretic method for constructing low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from connected graphs without the requirement of large girth. This method is based on finding a set of paths in a connected graph, which satisfies the constraint that any two paths in the set are either disjoint or cross each other at one and only one vertex. Two trellis-based algorithms for finding these paths are devised. Good LDPC codes of practical lengths are constructed and they perform well with iterative decoding.
  • Keywords
    graph theory; iterative decoding; parity check codes; LDPC codes; code length; connected graphs; graph-theoretic construction; graph-theoretic method; iterative decoding; low-density parity-check codes; trellis-based algorithms; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Null space; Parity check codes; Sparse matrices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2003.809990
  • Filename
    1195500