Upper Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Structured LDPC Codes

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Main Authors: Arnault, François, Gaborit, Philippe, Rozendaal, Wouter, Saussay, Nicolas, Zémor, Gilles
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author Arnault, François
Gaborit, Philippe
Rozendaal, Wouter
Saussay, Nicolas
Zémor, Gilles
author_facet Arnault, François
Gaborit, Philippe
Rozendaal, Wouter
Saussay, Nicolas
Zémor, Gilles
contents We investigate the minimum distance of structured binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes whose parity-check matrices are of the form $[\mathbf{C} \vert \mathbf{M}]$ where $\mathbf{C}$ is circulant and of column weight $2$, and $\mathbf{M}$ has fixed column weight $r \geq 3$ and row weight at least $1$. These codes are of interest because they are LDPC codes which come with a natural linear-time encoding algorithm. We show that the minimum distance of these codes is in $O(n^{\frac{r-2}{r-1} + ε})$, where $n$ is the code length and $ε> 0$ is arbitrarily small. This improves the previously known upper bound in $O(n^{\frac{r-1}{r}})$ on the minimum distance of such codes.
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spellingShingle Upper Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Structured LDPC Codes
Arnault, François
Gaborit, Philippe
Rozendaal, Wouter
Saussay, Nicolas
Zémor, Gilles
Information Theory
We investigate the minimum distance of structured binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes whose parity-check matrices are of the form $[\mathbf{C} \vert \mathbf{M}]$ where $\mathbf{C}$ is circulant and of column weight $2$, and $\mathbf{M}$ has fixed column weight $r \geq 3$ and row weight at least $1$. These codes are of interest because they are LDPC codes which come with a natural linear-time encoding algorithm. We show that the minimum distance of these codes is in $O(n^{\frac{r-2}{r-1} + ε})$, where $n$ is the code length and $ε> 0$ is arbitrarily small. This improves the previously known upper bound in $O(n^{\frac{r-1}{r}})$ on the minimum distance of such codes.
title Upper Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Structured LDPC Codes
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19125