id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt z890rr19m65 Lai Wei Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes and Cooperative Communication 2015 .txt text/plain 645 20 33 We show that WD of q-ary SC-LDPC codes provides significant threshold gains compared to corresponding (uncoupled) q-ary LDPC block code (LDPC-BC) ensembles when the window size W is large enough; we also show that these gains increase as the finite field size q=2^m increases. Analysis shows that, compared to standard flooding-schedule decoding, WD of q-ary SC-LDPC code ensembles results in significant reductions in both decoding complexity and decoding latency, and that these reductions increase as m increases. cache/z890rr19m65.txt txt/z890rr19m65.txt