Title : 
Serial Symbol-Reliability Based Algorithm for Decoding Non-Binary LDPC Codes
         
        
            Author : 
García-Herrero, Francisco ; Canet, María José ; Valls, Javier ; Flanagan, Mark F.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. de Telecomun. y Aplic. Multimedia, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Gandia, Spain
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A symbol-reliability based decoding algorithm with serial schedule for non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented. Performance results, together with implementation complexity analysis, are provided for different sample codes. The proposed algorithm achieves a similar gain to the min- max algorithm for codes with column weight dv ≥ 6, with lower complexity than previous symbol-reliability based algorithms.
         
        
            Keywords : 
decoding; parity check codes; nonbinary LDPC code decoding; nonbinary low density parity check codes; serial schedule; serial symbol reliability based algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Complexity theory; Decoding; Encoding; Iterative decoding; Vectors; Nonbinary low-density parity-check (LDPC) code; iterative serial decoding; symbol-reliability based algorithm;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications Letters, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LCOMM.2012.040912.120423