Waterfall region performance of punctured LDPC codes over the BEC

This paper is devoted to the analysis of finite-length iterative performance of punctured LDPC ensembles in the waterfall region, assuming the transmission over the binary erasure channel (BEC). The analysis is carried out using the scaling approach proposed in. Two punctured ensembles are considered: (a) randomly punctured ensembles, in the sense that each bit of a codeword is punctured with some puncturing probability; (b) ensembles with a fixed puncturing fraction of bits of each degree. In both cases, parameters of the scaling approximation are completely determined in terms of the ensemble parameters such as left, right and puncturing degree distributions.