Title :
Analysis and design of parallel concatenated Gallager codes
Author :
Behairy, H. ; Chang, Shih-Chun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
fDate :
8/29/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The convergence characteristics of parallel concatenated Gallager codes using the Gaussian approximation of extrinsic information are analysed. A design strategy is introduced to select the component low-density parity-check codes effectively
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; concatenated codes; convergence; error correction codes; Gallager codes; Gaussian approximation; LDPC codes; component codes; convergence characteristics; design strategy; extrinsic information; low-density parity-check codes; parallel concatenated codes;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020719
