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Multi-Dimensional Spatially-Coupled Codes
Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are constructed by coupling many regular
low-density parity-check codes in a chain. The decoding chain of SC codes stops
when facing burst erasures. This problem can not be overcome by increasing
coupling number. In this paper, we introduce multi-dimensional (MD) SC codes.
Numerical results show that 2D-SC codes are more robust to the burst erasures
than 1D-SC codes. Furthermore, we consider designing MD-SC codes with smaller
rateloss
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