LDPC code design tools typically rely on asymptotic code behavior and are affected by an unavoidable performance degradation due to model imperfections in the short length regime. We propose an LDPC ...

In this paper, we compare the finite-length performance of non-binary spatially coupled low-density parity-check (NB SC-LDPC) codes constructed from protographs to non-binary LDPC block codes (NB LDPC ...