Reduced complexity of decoding algorithm for irregular LDPC codes using Split Row method

A reduced complexity LDPC decoding method for regular LDPC code is extended to irregular LDPC codes; we present in this paper a full description of this method and its benefits for various row weight and length code word. The Split-Row method makes column processing parallelism easier to exploit and significantly simplifies row processors. Simulation results over an additive white Gaussian channel show that the error performance of high row-weight codes with Split-Row decoding is within 0.3-0.5 dB of the Min-Sum algorithm.