Abstract
This paper presents a new technique for constructing the Quasi-Cyclic low density parity check (QC-LDPC) codes based on
row division method. The new codes offer more flexibility in term of girth, code rates and codeword length. In this method of
code construction, the rows are used to form as the distance graph. Then they are transformed to a parity-check matrix in
order to acquire the desired girth. Simulation results show that the proposed QC-LDPC codes achieve a 0.1dB coding gain
over randomly constructed codes and perform 1.3 dB from the Shannon-limit at a BER of 10-6 with a code rate of 0.89 for
block length of 1332..
Keywords
Bit error rate, Communication channels, Encoding, QC-LDPC.
Citation
ABID YAHYA, FARID GHANI, R. BADLISHAH AHMED, Newly developed quasi-cyclic low density parity check codes for hard disks record data, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 7, July 2011, pp.745-750 (2011).
Submitted at: July 5, 2011
Accepted at: July 25, 2011