• DocumentCode
    993181
  • Title

    Irregular LDPC codes as concatenation regular LDPC codes

  • Author

    Fossorier, Marc ; Miladinovic, Nenad

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hawaii Univ., Honolulu, HI, USA
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    628
  • Lastpage
    630
  • Abstract
    In this letter, the construction of irregular LDPC codes obtained by concatenating regular ones is considered. These codes are analyzed for the binary symmetric channel (BSC). It is shown via proper distribution evolution that such concatenated codes have in general a threshold value weaker (but not necessarily much different) than their unconstrained counterparts for the BSC. On the other hand, they can offer advantages in term of convergence and error performance for lengths of practical interest and long enough to validate the degree distribution selection.
  • Keywords
    concatenated codes; convergence; error correction codes; iterative decoding; parity check codes; probability; telecommunication channels; BSC; LDPC code construction; binary symmetric channel; concatenation code; convergence; error performance; iterative decoding; low density parity check code; Bipartite graph; Concatenated codes; Convergence; Error correction; Error correction codes; Iterative decoding; Parity check codes; Performance analysis; Protection; Symmetric matrices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1461686
  • Filename
    1461686