Low-density generator-matrix (LDGM) code
Description
\(q\)-ary linear code with a sparse generator matrix. More precisely, a member of an infinite family of \([n,k,d]\) codes for which the number of nonzero entries in each row and column of the generator matrix are both bounded by a constant as \(n\to\infty\). The dual of an LDGM code has a sparse parity-check matrix and is called an LDPC code.
Rate
Certain LDGM codes come close to achieving Shannon capacity [1].
Parent
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Cousins
- Single parity-check (SPC) code — Concatenated SPCs are LDGM [2].
- \(q\)-ary parity-check code — Concatenated parity-check codes are LDGM [2].
- Low-density parity-check (LDPC) code — LDPC and LDGM codes are dual to each other.
References
- [1]
- J. Garcia-Frias and Wei Zhong, “Approaching Shannon performance by iterative decoding of linear codes with low-density generator matrix”, IEEE Communications Letters 7, 266 (2003) DOI
- [2]
- T. R. Oenning and Jaekyun Moon, “A low-density generator matrix interpretation of parallel concatenated single bit parity codes”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 37, 737 (2001) DOI
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- Victor V. Albert (2022-08-15) — most recent
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“Low-density generator-matrix (LDGM) code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/ldgm