Design of Irregular Repeat Accumulate Codes with Joint Degree Distributions

Kenta KASAI
Shinya MIYAMOTO
Tomoharu SHIBUYA
Kohichi SAKANIWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.11    pp.3351-3354
Publication Date: 2006/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.11.3351
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
irregular repeat accumulate codes,  joint degree distribution,  iterative decoding,  density evolution,  belief propagation,  

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Summary: 
Irregular Repeat-Accumulate (IRA) codes, introduced by Jin et al., have a linear-time encoding algorithm and their decoding performance is comparable to that of irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Meanwhile the authors have introduced detailedly represented irregular LDPC code ensembles specified with joint degree distributions between variable nodes and check nodes. In this paper, by using density evolution method [7],[8], we optimize IRA codes specified with joint degree distributions. Resulting codes have higher thresholds than Jin's IRA codes.


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