Optimized quantization and scaling of layered LDPC scaled min-sum decoder

Abstract

In this paper, we apply an efficient scaling strategy on layered scaled min-sum LDPC decoder. In addition, we propose a joint optimization strategy for the quantization and scaling parameters of layered scaled min-sum LDPC decoder. The study of our optimization results, for DVB-S2 LDPC codes with different constellation sizes and code rates, shows that each constellation size code rate pair has different optimal scaling and quantization parameters. In order to maximize the achievable performance, we propose using the different scaling and quantization parameters for each constellation size code rate pair. The simulation results show the performance improvement of separately using optimal scaling parameters or optimal quantization parameters, and the overall performance enhancement of using both optimal scaling and quantization parameters.