Systematic Doping of SC-LDPC Codes

• In this paper, we examine variable node (VN) doping to mitigate the error propagation problem in sliding window decoding (SWD) of spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes from the point of view of the encoding process. More specifically, in order to simplify the process of generating an encoded sequence with some number of doped code bits, we propose to employ systematic encoding and to limit doping to systematic bits only. Numerical results show that doping of systematic bits only achieves comparable performance to employing general (nonsystematic) encoding and full doping of all the code bits at each doping position, while benefiting from a much simpler encoding process. We then show that the inherent rate loss due to doping can be reduced by doping only a fraction of the variable nodes at each doping position with only a minor impact on performance.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

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decoder error propagation

fractional doping

sliding window decoding

systematic doping

variable node doping

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