• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1839-1844
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• 2015

The low-density parity-check(LDPC) code has been adopted in many communication standards due to its error correcting performance, and the quasi-cyclic LDPC(QC-LDPC) is widely used because of implementation easiness. In the QC-LDPC decoder, a cyclic-shifter is required to rotate data in various sizes. This kind of cyclic-shifters are called multi-size circular shifter(MSCS), and this paper proposes a low-complexity structure for MSCS. In the conventional serially-placed two barrel-rotators, the unnecessary multiplexers are revealed and removed, leading to low-complexity. The experimental results show that the area is reduced by about 12%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.631-634
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• 2010

기존의 Quasi-Cyclic LDPC 부호는 하나의 기본행렬의 순환행렬을 부행렬로 사용하여 패리티 검사 행렬을 만든다. 본 논문에서는 무게가 서로 다른 두 개의 기본 행렬의 순환행렬들과 영행렬을 부행렬로 사용하고, 이 세 개의 부행렬들을 주어진 조건하에서 무작위로 조합하여 패리티 검사 행렬을 만드는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 LDPC 부호는 girth가 6이상인 Irregular LDPC 부호이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2023-2024
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• 2006

1962년 Gallager에 의해 처음 제안된 LDPC 부호는 복호를 수행하는 부호방식으로 패리티 행렬(H)의 대부분이 0으로 구성되어 복호시에 적은 연산량을 요구하며, shannon의 한계에 도달하는 복호 능력으로, 차세대 통신의 주된 부호 방식으로 고려되고 있다. 하지만, LDPC는 부호화에 있어서 여타 다른 부호방식에 비해 복잡한 특성을 가지고 있으므로, 이를 개선하기 위한 부호방식의 적용이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 효율 적인 부호화를 위하여 Dual-diagonal H parity행렬을 구성 하고, 쉽게 부호 길이를 확장 할 수 있는 Quasi-Cyclic 방식을 적용한 복호기를 구현하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.157-161
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• 2015

A new block low-density parity-check (Block-LDPC) code based on quadratic permutation polynomials (QPPs) is proposed. The parity-check matrix of the Block-LDPC code is composed of a group of permutation submatrices that correspond to QPPs. The scheme provides a large range of implementable LDPC codes. Indeed, the most popular quasi-cyclic LDPC (QC-LDPC) codes are just a subset of this scheme. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme can offer similar error performance and implementation complexity as the popular QC-LDPC codes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2B
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• pp.325-333
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• 2010

Most communication systems including Wibro use quasi-cyclic LDPC codes composed of circulants. However, it is very difficult to design quasi-cyclic(QC) LDPC codes with optimal degree distribution satisfying conditions on layered decoding and girth due to the restriction of the size of its base matrix. In this paper, we propose a good solution by introducing superposition matrices to QC LDPC codes. We derive the conditions on checking girth of QC LDPC codes with superposition matrices, and propose new decoder to support layered decoding both for original QC LDPC codes and their modifications with superposition matrices. Simulation results show considerable improvements to convergence speed and error-correcting performance of proposed scheme which adopts QC LDPC codes with superposition matrices.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.2637-2642
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• 2015

The low-density parity check(LDPC) code is being widely used due to its outperformed error-correction ability. The decoder of the quasi-cyclic LDPC(QC-LDPC) codes, a kind of LDPC codes, requires a multi-size cyclic shifter(MSCS) performing rotation of various sizes. The MSCS can be implemented with a Benes network, which requires a $3{\times}3$ switch if the number of data to be rotated is a multiple of 3. This paper proposes a control signal generation with lower complexity and a faster $3{\times}3$ switch. For the experiment, the proposed schemes are applied to the MSCS of an IEEE 802.16e WiMAX QC-LDPC code decoder. The result shows that the delay is reduced by about 8.7%.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.406-410
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• 2010

This paper presents an approach to the construction of non-binary quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on multiplicative groups over one Galois field GF(q) and Euclidean geometries over another Galois field GF($2^S$). Codes of this class are shown to be regular with girth $6{\leq}g{\leq}18$ and have low densities. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed codes perform very wel with the iterative decoding.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.36-42
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• 2010

This paper presents a hybrid approach to the construction of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on parallel bundles in Euclidean geometries and circulant permutation matrices. Codes constructed by this method are shown to be regular with large girth and low density. Simulation results show that these codes perform very well with iterative decoding and achieve reasonably large coding gains over uncoded system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.3
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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.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.205-210
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• 2011

This paper presents an approach to the construction of multiple-rate quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Parity-check matrices of the proposed codes consist of $q{\times}q$ square submatrices. The block rows and block columns of the parity-check matrix correspond to the hyperplanes (${\mu}$-fiats) and points in Euclidean geometries, respectively. By decomposing the ${\mu}$-fiats, we obtain LDPC codes of different code rates and a constant code length. The code performance is investigated in term of the bit error rate and compared with those of LDPC codes given in IEEE standards. Simulation results show that our codes perform very well and have low error floors over the additive white Gaussian noise channel.