EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 6, Pages 775-783
doi:10.1155/ASP.2005.775

Parallel and Serial Concatenated Single Parity Check Product Codes

David M. Rankin,1 T. Aaron Gulliver,2 and Desmond P. Taylor1

 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, STN CSC, Victoria V8W 3P6, BC, Canada
Received 12 June 2003; Revised 9 April 2004

Abstract

The parallel and serial concatenation of codes is well established as a practical means of achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce the parallel and serial concatenation of single parity-check (SPC) product codes. The weight distribution of these codes is analyzed and the performance is bounded. Simulation results confirm these bounds at high signal-to-noise ratios. The performance of these codes (and some variants) is shown to be quite good given the low decoding complexity and reasonably short blocklengths.