“…On the other hand, the decoding process of the QC-LDPC codes can be performed by using soft-and hard-decision decoder schemes similar to LDPC codes (Chen, Dholakia, Eleftheriou, Fossorier, & Hu, 2005;Gallager, 1963;Jiang, Peng, Song, Pan, & Yang, 2009;Phakphisut, Supnithi, Sopon, & Myint, 2011;Zhong, Xu, Xie, & Zhang, 2007). Although hard decision decoders have the advantage of low complexity, they always exhibit lower performance than that of soft decision decoders.…”