Construction of Partial Geometries and LDPC codes based on Reed-Solomon Codes

Abstract

This paper presents a construction of a class of partial geometries based on RS codes of prime lengths and shows that LDPC codes constructed based on Reed-Solomon codes of prime lengths are finite geometry LDPC codes. Furthermore, a new method for design and construction of nonbinary quasi-cyclic LDPC codes based on the conventional parity-check matrices of Reed-Solomon codes is presented. Simulation results show that the constructed nonbinary LDPC codes perform well over the additive white Gaussian channel.