Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes Constructed from Protographs   In this paper, we construct protograph-based spatially coupled low-density
parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes by coupling together a series of L disjoint, or
uncoupled, LDPC code Tanner graphs into a single coupled chain. By varying L,
we obtain a flexible family of code ensembles with varying rates and frame
lengths that can share the same encoding and decoding architecture for
arbitrary L. We demonstrate that the resulting codes combine the best features
of optimized irregular and regular codes in one design: capacity approaching
iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding thresholds and linear growth of
minimum distance with block length. In particular, we show that, for
sufficiently large L, the BP thresholds on both the binary erasure channel
(BEC) and the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC)
saturate to a particular value significantly better than the BP decoding
threshold and numerically indistinguishable from the optimal maximum
a-posteriori (MAP) decoding threshold of the uncoupled LDPC code. When all
variable nodes in the coupled chain have degree greater than two,
asymptotically the error probability converges at least doubly exponentially
with decoding iterations and we obtain sequences of asymptotically good LDPC
codes with fast convergence rates and BP thresholds close to the Shannon limit.
Further, the gap to capacity decreases as the density of the graph increases,
opening up a new way to construct capacity achieving codes on memoryless
binary-input symmetric-output (MBS) channels with low-complexity BP decoding.

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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio