Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2006-09-11
Computer Science
Information Theory
submitted to IEEE Trans. Information Theory
Scientific paper
It is proved in this work that exhaustively determining bad patterns in arbitrary, finite low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, including stopping sets for binary erasure channels (BECs) and trapping sets (also known as near-codewords) for general memoryless symmetric channels, is an NP-complete problem, and efficient algorithms are provided for codes of practical short lengths n~=500. By exploiting the sparse connectivity of LDPC codes, the stopping sets of size <=13 and the trapping sets of size <=11 can be efficiently exhaustively determined for the first time, and the resulting exhaustive list is of great importance for code analysis and finite code optimization. The featured tree-based narrowing search distinguishes this algorithm from existing ones for which inexhaustive methods are employed. One important byproduct is a pair of upper bounds on the bit-error rate (BER) & frame-error rate (FER) iterative decoding performance of arbitrary codes over BECs that can be evaluated for any value of the erasure probability, including both the waterfall and the error floor regions. The tightness of these upper bounds and the exhaustion capability of the proposed algorithm are proved when combining an optimal leaf-finding module with the tree-based search. These upper bounds also provide a worst-case-performance guarantee which is crucial to optimizing LDPC codes for extremely low error rate applications, e.g., optical/satellite communications. Extensive numerical experiments are conducted that include both randomly and algebraically constructed LDPC codes, the results of which demonstrate the superior efficiency of the exhaustion algorithm and its significant value for finite length code optimization.
Kulkarni Sanjeev R.
Poor Harold Vincent
Wang Chih-Chun
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