Experimental results about the dynamics of the Generalized Belief Propagation used on LDPC codes

Jean-Christophe Sibel (1) , Sylvain Reynal (1) , David Declercq (1)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes

In the context of channel coding, the Generalized Belief Propagation (GBP) is an iterative algorithm used to recover the transmission bits sent through a noisy channel. To ensure a reliable transmission, we apply a map on the bits, that is called a code. This code induces artificial correlations between the bits to send, and it can be modeled by a graph whose nodes are the bits and the edges are the correlations. This graph, called Tanner graph, is used for most of the decoding algorithms like Belief Propagation or Gallager-B. The GBP is based on a non unic transformation of the Tanner graph into a so called region-graph. A clear advantage of the GBP over the other algorithms is the freedom in the construction of this graph. In this article, we explain a particular construction for specific graph topologies that involves relevant performance of the GBP. Moreover, we investigate the behavior of the GBP considered as a dynamic system in order to understand the way it evolves in terms of the time and in terms of the noise power of the channel. To this end we make use of classical measures and we introduce a new measure called the hyperspheres method that enables to know the size of the attractors.

Mots clés: iterative decoder; LDPC; region-graph; chaos.; chaos

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]; Systèmes dynamiques [math.DS]; Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]

Jean-Christophe Sibel, Sylvain Reynal, David Declercq. Experimental results about the dynamics of the Generalized Belief Propagation used on LDPC codes. XXXII. International Conference on Computational Physics, May 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.185. ⟨hal-00736212⟩