Encoding information into constant weight words


Iryna Andriyanova and Jean-Pierre Tillich and Jean-Claude Carlach

France-Telecom R&D (Rennes) and INRIA (projet CODES)

jean-pierre.tillich@inria.fr
jeanclaude.carlach@rd.francetelecom.com

To be presented at ISIT 2005, Adelaide, Australie.


Abstract

We investigate a new class of codes which is in some senses a hybrid between LDPC codes and turbo-codes.
We show that when the parameters of this class are well chosen they display very good iterative decoding
performances and have at the same time a minimum distance which is typically linear in the code length.