Research Article

Construction and Decoding of Rate-Compatible Globally Coupled LDPC Codes

Table 1

Parameters of a RC GC-LDPC code.

MemberSizeCode rate (bits)Degree distribution pair

0.866714400
0.833314976
0.802515552
0.747116704
0.656619008
0.492425344

The first columns of and are punctured columns, where and .
and are the variable and check degree distributions from the edge with , respectively, where .