Blind Identification of Nonbinary LDPC Codes Using Average LLR of Syndrome a Posteriori Probability

Abstract

Prevalent adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) techniques can facilitate the flexible strategies subject to the dynamic channel quality. It would be quite intriguing for one to build a blind encoder identification technique without spectrum-efficiency sacrifice for AMC transceivers. In this paper, we make the first-ever attempt to tackle the blind nonbinary low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoder identification given a predefined encoder candidate set over the Galois field GF(q) for q-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (q-QAM) signals. Our proposed method establishes the log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) of syndrome a posteriori probabilities (APPs), which specify the potential correctness of the underlying parity-check relations, and identifies the nonbinary LDPC encoder leading to the maximum average LLR over the candidate set. Monte Carlo simulation results verify the effectiveness of our proposed new scheme.