Construction of Girth-8 QC-LDPC Codes Free of Small Trapping Sets.

In this letter, we propose a new technique to design quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes with girth 8 and variable node degrees 3 and 4. Small trapping sets are avoided in the designed codes by imposing simple constraints on the cycles of length 8 in the code's Tanner graph. We also derive lower bounds on the block length of the codes that can satisfy such constraints. Simulation...