Design of Non-Binary Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes Based on Multiplicative Groups and Euclidean Geometries

  • Jiang, Xueqin (Department of Communications and Electronic Engineering, Donghua University) ;
  • Lee, Moon-Ho (Department of Communications and Electronic Engineering of Electronics, Chonbuk National University)
  • Received : 2009.04.13
  • Accepted : 2009.12.18
  • Published : 2010.10.31

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the construction of non-binary quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on multiplicative groups over one Galois field GF(q) and Euclidean geometries over another Galois field GF($2^S$). Codes of this class are shown to be regular with girth $6{\leq}g{\leq}18$ and have low densities. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed codes perform very wel with the iterative decoding.

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