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LDPC codes constructed from resolvable group divisible designs

SUN Cheng1;XU Hengzhou1;FENG Dan1;BAI Baoming1;ZHANG Yulong2   

  1. (1. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China;
    2. Zhoukou Hydrology and Water Resources Survey Bureau of Henan Province, Zhoukou 466000, China)
  • Received:2016-04-29 Online:2017-06-20 Published:2017-07-17

Abstract:

A new construction method for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented based on resolvable group divisible designs (RGDDs). The resulting LDPC codes are free of 4-cycle. With the use of RGDDs, a class of masking matrices is also constructed, and then many more quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes are obtained by the masking technique. Numerical results show that the proposed LDPC codes with iterative decoding using the sum-product algorithm perform very well over the AWGN channel. Furthermore, the QC-LDPC codes constructed based on masking have a better BER/FER performance than the original ones.

Key words: LDPC codes, girth, masking, resolvable group divisible designs