• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.328-338
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• 2015

Three areas of ongoing research in channel coding are surveyed, and recent developments are presented in each area: Spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, nonbinary LDPC codes, and polar coding.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권10호
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• pp.852-857
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• 2013

본 논문은 오류 마루 영역에서 우수한 성능을 가지는 비이진 LDPC (low-density parity-check) 부호의 설계 방법을 제안하고 성능을 검증한다. 제안된 설계 방법은 비이진 LDPC 부호의 이진 최소 거리(binary minimum distance)를 최대화하도록 패리티 검사 행렬의 비이진 원소 값들을 결정한다. BPSK (binary phase-shift keying) 변조 방식 하에서 제안된 방법으로 설계된 비이진 LDPC 부호가 오류 마루(error floor) 영역에서 우수한 성능을 가지는 것을 Monte Carlo 시뮬레이션과 중요도 표본 추출(importance sampling) 기법을 사용하여 검증한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권4C호
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• pp.310-317
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 체크 노드 분할에 의한 low-density parity-check(LDPC) 부호의 새로운 직렬 메시지 전달 복호 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 새로운 복호 알고리즘은 특히 적은 반복 횟수에 대하여 기존의 메시지 전달 복호 알고리즘의 비트 오율(BER) 성능보다 더 우수한 성능을 보인다. 체크 노드의 분할된 부분 집합의 개수가 증가함에 따라 비트 오율 성능이 보다 좋아진다는 사실을 분석적 결과로 확인할 수 있다. 또한 가우시안 근사화를 이용한 밀도 진화를 이용하여 변수 노드에서 메시지들의 평균값에 대한 재귀 방정식을 유도하고, 모의 실험을 이용하여 분석적인 결과를 검증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12C호
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• pp.1143-1149
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 체크 노드 분할을 이용한 변형된 반복 복호 방법 [8]을 IEEE 802.16e 표준에서 제시된 low-density parity-check(LDPC) 부호에 적용하여 복호의 수렴 속도 개선을 확인한다 또한 IEEE 802.16e에서 제시된 LDPC 부호에 가장 적합한 체크 노드 분할 방법을 제안한다. 수렴 속도 개선은 반복 횟수를 줄일 수 있다는 의미에서 계산 복잡도를 감소시킬 수 있다. 이러한 체크 노드 분할을 이용한 복호 방법은 복호기의 하드웨어 구현이 병렬 처리 방식으로 구현되기 어려운 시스템에서 효과적인 직렬 처리 방식으로 적용될 수 있다. 제시된 LDPC 부호의 변형된 반복 복호 방법은 무선 통신 시스템 환경의 실제 복호기를 구현하는데 사용될 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.161-162
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• 2008

In this paper we design an irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code for a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. The considered MIMO system is minimum mean square error soft-interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) detector. The MMSE-SIC detector and the LDPC decoder exchange soft information and consist a turbo iterative detection and decoding receiver. Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts are used to obtain the edge degree distribution of the irregular LDPC code which is optimized for the input-output transfer chart of the MMSE-SIC detector. It is shown that the performance of the designed LDPC code is much better than that of conventional LDPC code optimized for the AWGN channel.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권1C호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 이중 대각 부행렬에 근거한 결정적 LDPC 부호의 일종인 반집합 대수 LDPC 행렬이라는 새로운 LDPC 부호의 구성을 제시한다. 이러한 구성 방법에 의해 일종의 high rate LDPC 부호를 얻게 되며, 이 부류의 부호들은 큰 girth와 양호한 최소거리 특성을 갖는다. 또한, 순환 시프트 레지스터를 이용한 단순한 병렬 어레이 구조로 구현할 수 있으며, 반복 복호에 의해 용이하게 처리될 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.485-499
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• 2021

Although non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes have better error-correction capability than that of binary LDPC codes, their decoding complexity is significantly higher. Therefore, it is crucial to reduce the decoding complexity of NB-LDPC while maintaining their error-correction capability to adopt them for various applications. The extended min-sum (EMS) algorithm is widely used for decoding NB-LDPC codes, and it reduces the complexity of check node (CN) operations via message truncation. Herein, we propose a low-cost CN processing method to reduce the complexity of CN operations, which take most of the decoding time. Unlike existing studies on low complexity CN operations, the proposed method employs quick selection algorithm, thereby reducing the hardware complexity and CN operation time. The experimental results show that the proposed selection-based CN operation is more than three times faster and achieves better error-correction performance than the conventional EMS algorithm.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.351-361
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• 2015

In this paper, a new decoding scheme is proposed to improve the error correcting performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region by using post-processing. It behaves as follows: First, a conventional LDPC decoding is applied to received LDPC codewords one by one. Then, we count the number of word errors in a predetermined number of decoded codewords. If there is no word error, nothing needs to be done and we can move to the next group of codewords with no delay. Otherwise, we perform a proper post-processing which produces a new soft-valued codeword (this will be fully explained in the main body of this paper) and then apply the conventional LDPC decoding to it again to recover the unsuccessfully decoded codewords. For the proposed decoding scheme, we adopt a simple product code structure which contains LDPC codes and simple algebraic codes as its horizontal and vertical codes, respectively. The decoding capability of the proposed decoding scheme is defined and analyzed using the parity-check matrices of vertical codes and, especially, the combined-decodability is derived for the case of single parity-check (SPC) codes and Hamming codes used as vertical codes. It is also shown that the proposed decoding scheme achieves much better error correcting capability in high SNR region with little additional decoding complexity, compared with the conventional LDPC decoding scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.217-221
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• 2013

Quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on the Calderbank-Shor-Steane construction have low encoding and decoding complexity. The sum-product algorithm(SPA) can be used to decode quantum LDPC codes; however, the decoding performance may be significantly decreased by the many four-cycles required by this type of quantum codes. All four-cycles can be eliminated using the entanglement-assisted formalism with maximally entangled states (ebits). The proposed entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting code based on Euclidean geometry outperform differently structured quantum codes. However, the large number of ebits required to construct the entanglement-assisted formalism is a substantial obstacle to practical application. In this paper, we propose a novel class of entanglement-assisted quantum LDPC codes constructed using classical Euclidean geometry LDPC codes. Notably, the new codes require one copy of the ebit. Furthermore, we propose a construction scheme for a corresponding zigzag matrix and show that the algebraic structure of the codes could easily be expanded. A large class of quantum codes with various code lengths and code rates can be constructed. Our methods significantly improve the possibility of practical implementation of quantum error-correcting codes. Simulation results show that the entanglement-assisted quantum LDPC codes described in this study perform very well over a depolarizing channel with iterative decoding based on the SPA and that these codes outperform other quantum codes based on Euclidean geometries.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.249-257
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• 2014

This paper presents methods to the construction of regular and irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on Euclidean geometries over the Galois field. Codes constructed by these methods have quasi-cyclic (QC) structure and large girth. By decomposing hyperplanes in Euclidean geometry, the proposed irregular LDPC codes have flexible column/row weights. Therefore, the degree distributions of proposed irregular LDPC codes can be optimized by technologies like the curve fitting in the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. Simulation results show that the proposed codes perform very well with an iterative decoding over the AWGN channel.