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On this page you find the material for the ISIT tutorial http://www.isit2013.org/Tutorials/T2/ on “Spatial Coupling and the Threshold Saturation Phenomenon.”
The tutorial is in three parts. The first part deals with background material and introduces the concept of spatial coupling and its related threshold saturation phenomenon. In the second part we talk about how spatially coupled systems can be analysed. To keep things simple, the first two parts only deal with coding and transmission over the binary erasure channel. In the last part we outline some of the many applications where spatial coupling has been applied successfully.
There are two versions of our material. The first version consists of the Keynote slides. These contain movies and animations but require that you can read the Keynote format. We will continue to update this page with the always latest version. The second version is a printed PDF file. It does not contain animations but it contains additional comments and notes.
- Characterizations of the area threshold: Keynote, PDF
- Proof by pictures: Keynote, PDF
- Generalizations: Keynote, PDF