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Stopping Set Distributions of Some Linear Codes
Stopping sets and stopping set distribution of an low-density parity-check
code are used to determine the performance of this code under iterative
decoding over a binary erasure channel (BEC). Let be a binary
linear code with parity-check matrix , where the rows of may be
dependent. A stopping set of with parity-check matrix is a subset
of column indices of such that the restriction of to does not
contain a row of weight one. The stopping set distribution
enumerates the number of stopping sets with size of with parity-check
matrix . Note that stopping sets and stopping set distribution are related
to the parity-check matrix of . Let be the parity-check matrix
of which is formed by all the non-zero codewords of its dual code
. A parity-check matrix is called BEC-optimal if
and has the smallest number of rows. On the
BEC, iterative decoder of with BEC-optimal parity-check matrix is an
optimal decoder with much lower decoding complexity than the exhaustive
decoder. In this paper, we study stopping sets, stopping set distributions and
BEC-optimal parity-check matrices of binary linear codes. Using finite geometry
in combinatorics, we obtain BEC-optimal parity-check matrices and then
determine the stopping set distributions for the Simplex codes, the Hamming
codes, the first order Reed-Muller codes and the extended Hamming codes.Comment: 33 pages, submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Feb. 201
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