@article{Stinner2016,

title = {On the Waterfall Performance of Finite-Length SC-LDPC Codes Constructed From Protographs},

author = {Markus Stinner and Pablo M Olmos},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=7339427},

doi = {10.1109/JSAC.2015.2504279},

issn = {0733-8716},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-02-01},

journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},

volume = {34},

number = {2},

pages = {345--361},

abstract = {An analysis of spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes constructed from protographs is proposed. Given the protograph used to generate the SC-LDPC code ensemble, a set of scaling parameters to characterize the average finite-length performance in the waterfall region is computed. The error performance of structured SC-LDPC code ensembles is shown to follow a scaling law similar to that of unstructured randomly constructed SC-LDPC codes. Under a finite-length perspective, some of the most relevant SC-LDPC protograph structures proposed to date are compared. The analysis reveals significant differences in their finite-length scaling behavior, which is corroborated by simulation. Spatially coupled repeat-accumulate codes present excellent finite-length performance, as they outperform in the waterfall region SC-LDPC codes of the same rate and better asymptotic thresholds.},

keywords = {Analytical models, capacity-achieving codes, Complexity theory, Couplings, Decoding, Encoding, finite-length analysis, Iterative decoding, Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, spatially coupled LDPC codes constructed from prot},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Olmos2013b,

title = {Tree-Structure Expectation Propagation for LDPC Decoding Over the BEC},

author = {Pablo M Olmos and Juan Jose Murillo-Fuentes and Fernando Perez-Cruz},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6451276},

issn = {0018-9448},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},

volume = {59},

number = {6},

pages = {3354--3377},

abstract = {We present the tree-structure expectation propagation (Tree-EP) algorithm to decode low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over discrete memoryless channels (DMCs). Expectation propagation generalizes belief propagation (BP) in two ways. First, it can be used with any exponential family distribution over the cliques in the graph. Second, it can impose additional constraints on the marginal distributions. We use this second property to impose pairwise marginal constraints over pairs of variables connected to a check node of the LDPC code's Tanner graph. Thanks to these additional constraints, the Tree-EP marginal estimates for each variable in the graph are more accurate than those provided by BP. We also reformulate the Tree-EP algorithm for the binary erasure channel (BEC) as a peeling-type algorithm (TEP) and we show that the algorithm has the same computational complexity as BP and it decodes a higher fraction of errors. We describe the TEP decoding process by a set of differential equations that represents the expected residual graph evolution as a function of the code parameters. The solution of these equations is used to predict the TEP decoder performance in both the asymptotic regime and the finite-length regimes over the BEC. While the asymptotic threshold of the TEP decoder is the same as the BP decoder for regular and optimized codes, we propose a scaling law for finite-length LDPC codes, which accurately approximates the TEP improved performance and facilitates its optimization.},

keywords = {Algorithm design and analysis, Approximation algorithms, Approximation methods, BEC, belief propagation, Belief-propagation (BP), binary erasure channel, Complexity theory, decode low-density parity-check codes, Decoding, discrete memoryless channels, expectation propagation, finite-length analysis, LDPC codes, LDPC decoding, parity check codes, peeling-type algorithm, Probability density function, random graph evolution, Tanner graph, tree-structure expectation propagation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Olmos2012b,

title = {On the Design of LDPC-Convolutional Ensembles Using the TEP Decoder},

author = {Pablo M Olmos and Luis Salamanca and Juan Jose Murillo-Fuentes and Fernando Perez-Cruz},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6168872},

issn = {1089-7798},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},

volume = {16},

number = {5},

pages = {726--729},

abstract = {Low-density parity-check convolutional (LDPCC) codes asymptotically achieve channel capacity under belief propagation (BP) decoding. In this paper, we decode LDPCC codes using the Tree-Expectation Propagation (TEP) decoder, recently proposed as an alternative decoding method to the BP algorithm for the binary erasure channel (BEC). We show that, for LDPCC codes, the TEP decoder improves the BP solution with a comparable complexity or, alternatively, it allows using shorter codes to achieve similar error rates. We also propose a window-sliding scheme for the TEP decoder to reduce the decoding latency.},

keywords = {belief propagation decoding, binary erasure channel, channel capacity, Complexity theory, convolutional codes, convolutional LDPC codes, Decoding, design, Error analysis, finite-length analysis, Iterative decoding, LDPC-convolutional ensemble design, LDPCC code decoding, low-density parity-check convolutional code, parity check codes, tree-expectation propagation decoder, tree-structured expectation propagation, window-sliding scheme},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Olmos2011c,

title = {Tree-Structured Expectation Propagation for Decoding Finite-Length LDPC Codes},

author = {Pablo M Olmos and Juan Jose Murillo-Fuentes and Fernando Perez-Cruz},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=5682215},

issn = {1089-7798},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},

volume = {15},

number = {2},

pages = {235--237},

abstract = {In this paper, we propose Tree-structured Expectation Propagation (TEP) algorithm to decode finite-length Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. The TEP decoder is able to continue decoding once the standard Belief Propagation (BP) decoder fails, presenting the same computational complexity as the BP decoder. The BP algorithm is dominated by the presence of stopping sets (SSs) in the code graph. We show that the TEP decoder, without previous knowledge of the graph, naturally avoids some fairly common SSs. This results in a significant improvement in the system performance.},

keywords = {belief propagation decoder, BP algorithm, BP decoder, code graph, communication complexity, computational complexity, Decoding, finite-length analysis, finite-length low-density parity-check code, LDPC code, LDPC decoding, parity check codes, radiowave propagation, stopping set, TEP algorithm, TEP decoder, tree-structured expectation propagation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}