Asymptotically regular spatially coupled codes with low decoding delay

The spatially coupled code family was recently introduced in the error correction coding literature. In this paper, we provide a summary of the spatially coupled codes and the window based decoder that is used to decode these codes. We design spatially coupled codes that benefit from low decoding complexity and delay and present their error performance over the additive white Gaussian channel via computer simulations in addition to comparisons with LDPC block codes of similar complexity.