[MB2] Advanced PAM Systems

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM JST(7:00 AM - 7:30 AM UTC)

[MB2-1] Improving HD-FEC Decoding via Bit MarkingInvited

〇Alex Alvarado¹, Gabriele Liga¹, Yi Lei², Bin Chen¹, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming³ (¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands., ²Hefei Univ. of Technology, China, ³École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Keywords:

Forward error correction,hard-decision FEC,iterative decoding

We review the recently introduced soft-aided bit-marking (SABM) algorithm and its suitability for product codes. Some aspects of the implementation of the SABM algorithm are discussed. The influence of suboptimal channel soft information is also analyzed.