Extended bit-filling and LDPC code design

Recently, we proposed a simple-to-implement heuristic, namely, BIT-FILLING, for constructing high rate and high girth LDPC codes. In the present work, we extend BIT-FILLING, and demonstrate that the extended algorithm produces better codes, that is, codes with higher rate/girth and good bit error rate performance. We demonstrate the positive effect of girth on bit error rate performance.