9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A New Algorithm to Improve the Decoding Success Probability of Raptor Code

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256321,
        author={Huihui Li and Xiangying Li and Pei He and Shanqiang Yi and Dewei Yang and Huafeng Liu},
        title={A New Algorithm to Improve the Decoding Success Probability of Raptor Code},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={1},
        keywords={raptor code; stopping set; bp decoding; ripple},
        doi={10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256321}
    }
    
  • Huihui Li
    Xiangying Li
    Pei He
    Shanqiang Yi
    Dewei Yang
    Huafeng Liu
    Year: 2015
    A New Algorithm to Improve the Decoding Success Probability of Raptor Code
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256321
Huihui Li1, Xiangying Li1, Pei He1, Shanqiang Yi1, Dewei Yang1,*, Huafeng Liu2
  • 1: Beijing Institute of Technology
  • 2: Research Center of Beijing Space Information Relay Transmission Technology
*Contact email: davidyang@bit.edu.cn

Abstract

Raptor code is a kind of new fountain code which usually adopts belief propagation(BP) decoding algorithm. In order to improve the decoding success probability of Raptor code, this paper proposes two methods. On the one hand, we adopt a new construction method of check matrix for LDPC code, which can effectively avoid the girth of 4. On the other hand, we analyze and simulate the number of stopping set after BP decoding and propose a new decoding algorithm–the cascaded iterative algorithm based on the Ripple detection. Comparing our algorithm with BP, simulation results show that the proportion of encoded packages with degree 2, 3 in stopping set has decreased apparently and the success probability of Raptor decoding has improved.