Explicit APM-LDPC Codes With Girths 6, 8, and 10

Recently, some attentions have been focused on a class of low-density parity-check codes from affine permutation matrices, called APM-LDPC codes, which have some advantages rather than quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes in the minimum-distance, cycle distribution and error-rate performance. In this letter, first, some novel explicit constructions for exponent matrices of conventional APM-LDPC codes with girths 6, 8, and 10 are investigated, and for each given exponent matrix E corresponding to an APM-LDPC code with girth 2g , 3 ≤ g ≤ 5, a lower bound Q = Q(E,g) is obtained, such that APM-LDPC codes with exponent matrix E have girth at least 2g, for each (prime) APM size m ≥ Q. Then, regarding to reduce the lower bound, an improved bound IQ is obtained, which is significantly better than some lower bounds reported for QC-LDPC codes with explicit constructions. Simulation results show that the constructed APM-LDPC codes outperform QC-LDPC codes with the same girth.