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Kovalenko's Full-Rank Limit and Overhead as Lower Bounds for Error-Performances of LDPC and LT Codes over Binary Erasure Channels

arXiv:0808.0272 · doi:10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895488

Abstract

We present Kovalenko's full-rank limit as a tight lower bound for decoding error probability of LDPC codes and LT codes over BEC. From the limit, we derive a full-rank overhead as a lower bound for stable overheads for successful maximum-likelihood decoding of the codes.

arXiv commentA short version of this paper was presented at ISITA 2008, Auckland NZ. The first draft was submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2008/06