Associated Sectors of Magnetic Recording Systems Using Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes
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In traditional magnetic recording systems, non-associated sectors are mainly adopted, whereby two consecutive sectors are decoded independently by the low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this paper, we propose a magnetic recording system with associated sectors, constructed using spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes. If the SC-LDPC decoder cannot correct the erroneous bits in the current sector, it can request information stored in previous sectors to improve decoding performance. Moreover, we modify protograph-based extrinsic information transfer (P-EXIT) charts to examine the theoretical performance of SC-LDPC codes applied to both non-associated and associated sectors. Our theoretical results show that the associated sectors achieve significant performance gains compared to the traditional non-associated sectors.
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