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Stinner, Markus; Olmos, Pablo M Analyzing Finite-length Protograph-Based Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes Inproceedings 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 891–895, IEEE, Honolulu, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4799-5186-4. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: binary erasure channel, covariance analysis, covariance evolution, Decoding, degree-one check nodes, Error analysis, finite-length protograph, mean evolution, Monte Carlo methods, parity check codes, peeling decoding, protograph-based SC-LDPC codes, spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes, stable decoding phase, Steady-state, Vectors @inproceedings{Stinner2014, title = {Analyzing Finite-length Protograph-Based Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes}, author = {Markus Stinner and Pablo M Olmos}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6874961}, isbn = {978-1-4799-5186-4}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory}, pages = {891--895}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Honolulu}, abstract = {The peeling decoding for spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes is analyzed for a binary erasure channel. An analytical calculation of the mean evolution of degree-one check nodes of protograph-based SC-LDPC codes is given and an estimate for the covariance evolution of degree-one check nodes is proposed in the stable decoding phase where the decoding wave propagates along the chain of coupled codes. Both results are verified numerically. Protograph-based SC-LDPC codes turn out to have a more robust behavior than unstructured random SC-LDPC codes. Using the analytically calculated parameters, the finite-length scaling laws for these constructions are given and verified by numerical simulations.}, keywords = {binary erasure channel, covariance analysis, covariance evolution, Decoding, degree-one check nodes, Error analysis, finite-length protograph, mean evolution, Monte Carlo methods, parity check codes, peeling decoding, protograph-based SC-LDPC codes, spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes, stable decoding phase, Steady-state, Vectors}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } The peeling decoding for spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes is analyzed for a binary erasure channel. An analytical calculation of the mean evolution of degree-one check nodes of protograph-based SC-LDPC codes is given and an estimate for the covariance evolution of degree-one check nodes is proposed in the stable decoding phase where the decoding wave propagates along the chain of coupled codes. Both results are verified numerically. Protograph-based SC-LDPC codes turn out to have a more robust behavior than unstructured random SC-LDPC codes. Using the analytically calculated parameters, the finite-length scaling laws for these constructions are given and verified by numerical simulations. |