Concatenated tree codes: a low-complexity, high-performance approach

  • Authors:
  • Li Ping;K. Y. Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with a family of concatenated tree (CT) codes. CT codes are special low-density parity check (LDPC) codes consisting of several trees with large spans. They can also be regarded as special turbo codes with hybrid recursive/nonrecursive parts and multiple constituent codes. CT codes are decodable by the belief-propagation algorithm. They combine many advantages of LDPC and turbo codes, such as low decoding cost, fast convergence speed, and good performance