A cycle-based rate-compatible puncturing technique for non-binary LDPC codes
Kuntal Deka, A. Rajesh, Prabin Kumar Bora · 2016
This paper presents a cycle-based rate-compatible puncturing technique for non-binary (NB) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed puncturing technique is based on the connectivity of the short non-binary (NB) cycles present in the Tanner graph. The connectivity of a cycle is measured by the extrinsic message degree (EMD). The short cycles with low values of EMD degrade the performance of iterative decoders significantly. The proposed technique selects the variable nodes for puncturing by reckoning their involvements in the short NB cycles with a low EMD. Simulations in different contexts are performed to check the efficiency of the proposed technique.