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Parameters of LDPC codes, such as minimum distance, stopping distance, stopping redundancy, girth of the Tanner graph, and their influence on the frame error rate performance of the BP, ML and near-ML decoding over a BEC and an AWGN channel are studied. Both random and structured LDPC codes are considered. In particular, the BP decoding is applied to the code parity-check matrices with an increasing number of redundant rows, and the convergence of the performance to that of the ML decoding is analyzed. A comparison of the simulated BP, ML, and near-ML performance with the improved theoretical bounds on the error probability based on the exact weight spectrum coefficients and the exact stopping size spectrum coefficients is presented. It is observed that decoding performance very close to the ML decoding performance can be achieved with a relatively small number of redundant rows for some codes, for both the BEC and the AWGN channels.

Abstract-In this work, we analyze the failing sets of the interval-passing algorithm (IPA) for compressed sensing. The IPA is an efficient iterative algorithm for reconstructing a ksparse nonnegative n-dimensional real signal x from a small number of linear measurements y. In particular, we show that the IPA fails to recover x from y if and only if it fails to recover a corresponding binary vector of the same support, and also that only positions of nonzero values in the measurement matrix are of importance for success of recovery. Based on this observation, we introduce termatiko sets and show that the IPA fails to fully recover x if and only if the support of x contains a nonempty termatiko set, thus giving a complete (graph-theoretic) description of the failing sets of the IPA. Finally, we present an extensive numerical study showing that in many cases there exist termatiko sets of size strictly smaller than the stopping distance of the binary measurement matrix; even as low as half the stopping distance in some cases.

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A new method for low-complexity near-maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the additive white Gaussian noise channel is presented. The proposed method termed beliefpropagation-list erasure decoding (BP-LED) is based on erasing carefully chosen unreliable bits performed in case of BP decoding failure. A strategy of introducing erasures into the received vector and a new erasure decoding algorithm are proposed. The new erasure decoding algorithm, called list erasure decoding, combines ML decoding over the BEC with list decoding applied if the ML decoder fails to find a unique solution. The asymptotic exponent of the average list size for random regular LDPC codes from the Gallager ensemble is analyzed. Furthermore, a few examples of regular and irregular quasi-cyclic LDPC codes of short and moderate lengths are studied by simulations and their performance is compared with the upper bound on the LDPC ensemble-average performance and the upper bound on the average performance of random linear codes under ML decoding. A comparison with the BP decoding performance of the WiMAX standard codes and performance of the near-ML BEAST decoding are presented. The new algorithm is applied to decoding a short nonbinary LDPC code over the extension of the binary Galois field. The obtained simulation results are compared to the upper bound on the ensemble-average performance of the binary image of regular nonbinary LDPC codes. 1