July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 21m
English
A Tanner graph is a pictorial representation for the parity-check constraints of an ECC (Tanner [1981]). In Tanner graphs each square represents a parity-check bit and each circle connected to a square represents a bit that participates in that parity check. Thus, the nodes of the graph are separated into two distinct sets: c-nodes (top nodes, circles) and p-nodes (bottom nodes, squares). For an (n, k) code, the c-nodes ci, i = 1, …, n, and the p-nodes pj, j = 1,…, m, m = n − k, represent the message bits (symbols) and the parity bits, respectively, for a transmitted word ci (or received word denoted by wi). These nodes are connected to each other by the following formula:
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