@article{M3F8FAF11, title = "Design of Distributed Root Protograph LDPC Codes for Block Fading Channels", journal = "The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences", year = "2025", issn = "1226-4717", doi = "10.7840/kics.2025.50.11.1735", author = "Yejin Lee, Minseok Han, Hosung Park", keywords = "Block fading channel, Low-Density, Parity-Check code, Rootcheck, , Diversity order, Outage probability.", abstract = "In this letter, we propose a distributed root protograph (DRP) design for block fading (BF) channels that starts from the conventional RP structure to support a higher code rate of 1/( − 1). Although the proposed codes do not achieve full diversity, they attain the maximum diversity for given code rate and show a slope of frame error rate (FER) approaching the channel outage probability." }