Design of semi-algebraic low-density parity-check (SA-LDPC) codes for multilevel coded modulation

Abstract

Semialgebraic low-density parity-check (SA-LDPC) codes are proposed for the multilevel coded modulation system. We optimize code parameters of LDPC codes according to the rate of each level by Gaussian approximation. Iterative multistage decoding (IMSD) scheme is adopted to get the significant improvement. System performance with Ungerboeck partitioning (UP) and mixed partitioning (MP) for 8PSK is evaluated respectively over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. Many results are presented, they indicate that in terms of the tradeoff between hardware complexity and system performance, constructed multilevel coded modulation system based on optimized LDPC codes, capacity rule and MP is a good choice for the bandwidth efficient transmission over AWGN channels.