Title : 
Pseudocodeword weights and stopping sets
         
        
            Author : 
Kelley, Christine ; Sridhara, Deepak ; Xu, Jun ; Rosenthal, Joachim
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math., Notre Dame Univ., IN, USA
         
        
        
            fDate : 
27 June-2 July 2004
         
        
        
            Abstract : 
We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights. The weight of a pseudocodeword is related to the size of its support set, which forms a stopping set in the Tanner graph.
         
        
            Keywords : 
graph theory; pseudonoise codes; Tanner graph; pseudocodeword weight; stopping set; AWGN channels; Bipartite graph; Constraint theory; Convergence; Iterative decoding; Mathematics; Maximum likelihood decoding; Parity check codes; Upper bound;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8280-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365105