Belief-Propagation Decoding of Lattices Using Gaussian Mixtures

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2009-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4741v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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A belief-propagation decoder for low-density lattice codes is given which represents messages explicitly as a mixture of Gaussians functions. The key component is an algorithm for approximating a mixture of several Gaussians with another mixture with a smaller number of Gaussians. This Gaussian mixture reduction algorithm iteratively reduces the number of Gaussians by minimizing the distance between the original mixture and an approximation with one fewer Gaussians. Error rates and noise thresholds of this decoder are compared with those for the previously-proposed decoder which discretely quantizes the messages. The error rates are indistinguishable for dimension 1000 and 10000 lattices, and the Gaussian-mixture decoder has a 0.2 dB loss for dimension 100 lattices. The Gaussian-mixture decoder has a loss of about 0.03 dB in the noise threshold, which is evaluated via Monte Carlo density evolution. Further, the Gaussian-mixture decoder uses far less storage for the messages.

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