• DocumentCode
    890217
  • Title

    Computing the Stopping Distance of a Tanner Graph Is NP-Hard

  • Author

    Krishnan, Karunakaran Murali ; Shankar, Priti

  • Author_Institution
    Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore
  • Volume
    53
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2278
  • Lastpage
    2280
  • Abstract
    Two decision problems related to the computation f stopping sets in Tanner graphs are shown to be NP-complete. It follows as a consequence that there exists no polynomial time algorithm for computing the stopping distance of a Tanner graph unless P = NP.
  • Keywords
    decoding; parity check codes; NP-hardness; Tanner graph; decision problems; decoding; low-density parity-check codes; polynomial time algorithm; stopping distance; Automation; Computer science; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Linear code; NP-complete problem; Parity check codes; Performance analysis; Polynomials; Research and development; Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes; NP-hardness; Tanner graph; stopping distance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2007.896864
  • Filename
    4215144