SPM: LDPC Codes

LDPC Codes

Contact Details

Dr. Sarah Johnson

Email

Phone

+61 2 49 21 6028

Fax

+61 2 49 21 6993

Office

Callaghan Campus
Building E

Post

Dr. Sarah Johnson

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia

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Funding

Australian Research Council

ARC Discovery Project
DP0665742
2006-2008
Value: $112,128

Australian Research Council

ARC Discovery Project
DP0449627
2004-2006
Value: $257,466

Australian Research Council

ARC Research Network
2004-2009
Value: $120,000

Australian Research Council

Discovery Project
DP0771131
2007-2009
Value: $210,000

Australian Research Council

Discovery Project
DP0877258
2008-2010
Value: $335,000

Low-density parity-check codes are a class of iterative error correction codes with capacity-approaching decoding performances. This project investigates the design and decoding of low-density parity-check codes and a related class of codes called repeat-accumulate codes.

Contents

Background

Background to the LDPC project.

Publications

Selected journal and conference papers together with internal technical reports.

Online Density Evolution

Perform online density evolution and view results.

Online Optimisation

Perform online optimisation of degree distributions.

Project Team

People involved in this project.

Download an Introduction to LDPC Codes

This material was written for the ACoRN Spring School on Coding, Multiple User Communications and Random Matrix Theory, November 13-17 2006

Introduction to LDPC codes