Enforcing Maximum-Transition-Run Code Constraints and Low-Density Parity-Check Decoding

Richard M. Todd, J.R. Cruz · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics · 2004

We present a novel algorithm for imposing the maximum-transition-run (MTR) code constraint in the decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over a partial response channel. This algorithm provides a gain of about 0.2 dB. We also develop log and max-log versions of the MTR enforcer, similar to the well-known "log-MAP" (maximum a posteriori ) and "max-log-MAP" variants of the LDPC decoder, that have performance equivalent to that of the original version.

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