Definition 6.3.1
The
Tanner graph
of

is the bipartite graph with

vertices,
the
message vertices are labeled
by the coordinates of

(

, ..,

, say),
and the
check vertices are
unlabeled but are indexed by the rows
6.1
of

.
The

check vertex is connected by an edge to
the

message vertex if and only if the

entry of

is non-zero (i.e., if and only if

occurs
in the

parity check equation defining

).
Example 6.3.2
Tanner graph for the binary Hamming

-code
in §
3.4.2.
The parity check equations correspond to the solid black
vertices, the coordinates of the codes to the labeled
vertices, and the edges correspond to the terms occurring
in the parity check equation.