A Modification Method for Constructing Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Burst Erasures

Gou HOSOYA
Hideki YAGI
Toshiyasu MATSUSHIMA
Shigeichi HIRASAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.10    pp.2501-2509
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.10.2501
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
low-density parity-check (LDPC) code,  burst erasure,  sum-product decoding,  stopping set,  

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Summary: 
We study a modification method for constructing low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for solid burst erasures. Our proposed modification method is based on a column permutation technique for a parity-check matrix of the original LDPC codes. It can change the burst erasure correction capabilities without degradation in the performance over random erasure channels. We show by simulation results that the performance of codes permuted by our method are better than that of the original codes, especially with two or more solid burst erasures.


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