Construction of Regular and Irregular LDPC Codes: Geometry Decomposition and Masking

  • Authors:
  • J. Xu;L. Chen;I. Djurdjevic;S. Lin;K. Abdel-Ghaffar

  • Affiliations:
  • Marvell Semicond., Sunnyvale, CA;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Two algebraic methods for systematic construction of structured regular and irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with girth of at least six and good minimum distances are presented. These two methods are based on geometry decomposition and a masking technique. Numerical results show that the codes constructed by these methods perform close to the Shannon limit and as well as random-like LDPC codes. Furthermore, they have low error floors and their iterative decoding converges very fast. The masking technique greatly simplifies the random-like construction of irregular LDPC codes designed on the basis of the degree distributions of their code graphs