Reducing the Error Floor of the Sign-Preserving Min-Sum LDPC Decoder via Message Weighting of Low-Degree Variable Nodes

Some low-complexity LDPC decoders suffer from error floors. We apply iteration-dependent weights to the degree-3 variable nodes to solve this problem. When the 802.3ca EPON LDPC code is considered, an error floor decrease of more than 3 orders of magnitude is achieved.