Typical performance of gallager-type error-correcting codes
1Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 2268502, Japan.
Abstract:
The performance of Gallager's error-correcting code is investigated via methods of statistical physics. In this approach, the transmitted codeword comprises products of the original message bits selected by two randomly constructed sparse matrices; the number of nonzero row/column elements in these matrices constitutes a family of codes. We show that Shannon's channel capacity is saturated for many of the codes while slightly lower performance is obtained for others which may be of higher practical relevance. Decoding aspects are considered by employing the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer approach which is identical to the commonly used belief-propagation-based decoding.
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