Globally coupled LDPC codes
Juane Li, Shu Lin, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, W.E. Ryan, Daniel J. Costello · 2016
This paper presents a special type of LDPC codes with a structure related to but different from that of the spatially coupled LDPC codes. For an LDPC code of this type, its Tanner graph is composed of a set of small disjoint Tanner graphs which are connected together by a group of overall check-nodes, called global check-nodes. Codes of this type are called globally coupled LDPC codes and they perform well over both the additive Gaussian white noise and the binary-erasure channels. Furthermore, they are very effective at correcting erasures clustered in bursts. Two algebraic methods are presented for constructing these codes. A two-phase local/global iterative scheme for decoding these codes is presented. This decoding scheme allows correction of local random and global errors and/or erasures in two phases.