| ADMM | Alternating direction method of multipliers. |
| AWGN | Additive white Gaussian noise. |
| BER | Bit error rate. |
| BP | Belief propagation. |
| DE | Differential evolution. |
| FER | Frame error rate. |
| GC-LDPC | Globally coupled low-density parity-check. |
| LDPC | Low-density parity-check. |
| LLR | Log-likelihood ratio. |
| SNR | Signal-to-noise ratio. |
| FSD | Full-matrix decoding. |
| TPD | Two-phase decoding. |