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Overlapped layered belief-propagation LDPC decoding algorithm

FAN Ya'nan1,2;WANG Lichong1,2;YAO Xiujuan1;MENG Xin1   

  1. (1. National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing 100190 China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)
  • Received:2016-03-18 Online:2017-04-20 Published:2017-05-26

Abstract:

An Overlapped Layered-BP(OLBP) decoding algorithm is proposed aiming at further increasing the convergence speed and enhancing the error performance of the Layered Belief-Propagation(LBP) algorithm. In this algorithm, more than one sub-decoders are used to decode simultaneously, and sub-decoders have different check node updating orders from each other. The most reliable messages are kept and used for the next iteration for every check node, and thus a faster convergence can be provided. Simulation result shows that, compared with the LBP algorithm, the OLBP algorithm possesses a better error performance as well as a higher convergence speed and introducing no extra storage requirement. Moreover, the proposed algorithm is effective for both regular and irregular LDPC codes.

Key words: channel coding, low density parity check codes, iterative decoding, layered-belief-propagation, overlapped layered-belief-propagation