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An Improved Belief Propagation Decoding for LT Codes

LT 부호를 위한 개선된 BP 복호

  • Cheong, Ho-Young (Department of Information and Communication Engineering of Namseoul University)
  • Received : 2014.11.02
  • Accepted : 2014.12.02
  • Published : 2014.12.30
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Abstract

It is known that a belief propagation algorithm is a fast decoding scheme for LT codes but it require a large overhead, especially for a short block length LT codes. In this paper an improved belief decoding algorithm using searching method for degree-1 packets is proposed for a small overhead. The proposed decoding scheme shows the desirable performance in terms of overhead while guaranteeing the same computational complexity with respect to the conventional BP decoding scheme.

LT 부호에 대해 BP 복호 알고리즘은 가장 빠른 복호 방법 중 하나로 알려져 있다. 그러나 BP 알고리즘은 대부분의 LT 부호를 복호하는데 있어서 많은 오버헤드를 요구하며 특히 짧은 길이의 LT 부호에 대해서는 과다한 오버헤드가 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 오버헤드를 줄이기 위해 1-차수의 패킷을 탐색할 수 있는 방법을 제시하고 이를 이용한 개선된 BP 복호 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 복호 알고리즘은 기존의 BP 알고리즘에 비해 같은 복호 복잡도를 유지하면서도 더 적은 오버헤드를 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

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