Abstract
Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are widely used in communication systems. When user messages are encoded by binary LDPC codes and transmitted with higher-order modulations, bits composing the same modulated symbol are generally correlated. Traditional soft-decision decoding algorithms for binary LDPC codes like sum-product algorithm (SPA) and min-sum algorithm (MSA) update messages only based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR) of bits, and correlations introduced by modulation are not utilized. In this paper, symbol-based SPA and MSA (S-SPA and S-MSA) which incorporate symbol-level information in the decoding procedures are proposed to provide an alternative low-cost way to better utilize available information. By narrowing the search space of symbols based on bit-level information, the complexities of the proposed algorithms are independent of modulation order. S-SPA and S-MSA achieve better error-correction performances than SPA and MSA with little additional complexities and S-MSA is friendly to hardware design of LDPC decoder.
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