Construction of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes using Hamming codewords
Haijing Zhong, Shancheng Zhao, Li Chen, Xiao Ma · 2016
In this paper, we propose a new approach to construct quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes using Hamming codewords of weight three, namely the HM-QC-LDPC codes. Thanks to the distance property of Hamming codes, length four cycles are avoided from the Tanner graph of the constructed codes, resulting in codes of girth six. This approach can be further extended to construct QC-LDPC codes of girth eight. Our numerical results show that the proposal has a better cycle profile than the progressive-edge-growth (PEG) constructed codes, and consequently prevails in performance. Moreover, the constructed QC-LDPC code prevails the LDPC code of the IEEE802.22 standard by 0.2 dB at the bit error rate (BER) of 10-8when the codeword length is within hundreds of bits, making it a promising candidate for scenarios where strict decoding latency is imposed.