New constructions of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes based on two classes of balanced incomplete block designs: for AWGN and binary erasure channels

  • Authors:
  • Lan Lan;Ying Yu Tai;Shu Lin;Behshad Memari;Bahram Honary

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA;Department of Communication Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Department of Communication Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  • Venue:
  • AAECC'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents two new methods for constructing quasi-cyclic LDPC codes using certain special classes of balanced incomplete block designs constructed based on finite fields. The codes constructed perform well with iterative decoding over both AWGN and binary erasure channels.