Performance evaluation of regular cycle non-binary LDPC codes in AWGN channel

  • Authors:
  • Ameenudeen Pe;A. V. Babu

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Technology, Calicut;National Institute of Technology, Calicut

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) are a group of channel codes which can be decoded using a graph. LDPC codes are known to give near Shannon limit performance in Additive White Gaussian Channel (AWGN), but for large block-lengths and irregular construction. To overcome this limitation, it has been proposed to define codes over a higher order Galois Field. In this paper,we construct a regular cycle non binary LDPC code over GF(q), where q=2p.We use a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based low complexity algorithm to decode the LDPC code defined over a large Galois Field. We evaluate the performance of these codes in AWGN channel using computer simulations and show that they are giving excellent BER performance.