Efficient termination of spatially-coupled codes

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes attract much attention due to their capacity-achieving performance and a memory-efficient sliding-window decoding algorithm. On the other hand, the encoder needs to solve large linear equations to terminate the encoding process. In this paper, we propose modified spatially-coupled codes. The modified (d l , d r , L) codes have less rate-loss, i.e., higher coding rate, and have the same threshold as (d l , d r , L) codes and are efficiently terminable by using an accumulator.