Design and Analysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Block-Fading Channels

We solve the problem of designing powerful low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding for the block-fading channel. We present a new family of full-diversity LDPC codes that exhibit near outage limit performance. This family competes with multiplexed parallel turbo codes suitable for non-ergodic channels and recently reported in the literature.