[TuC2] FEC and Coding

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM JST(3:15 AM - 3:30 AM UTC)

[TuC2-5] Complexity Reduction of Soft-decision FEC Decoder Using Polar Coding with CRC-aided Successive Cancellation List Decoding

○Zhiyuan Song¹, Koji Igarashi ², Takumi Takahashi ¹, Gakuto Kanematsu², Yohei Koganei³ (1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. (Japan), 2. Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. (Japan), 3. Fujitsu Ltd. (Japan))

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Coding and forward error correction for optical communications

We propose a polar code with CRC-aided sequential cancellation list decoder to reduce complexity of SD-FEC decoder. The proposed method suppresses the error floor, allowing to use a variety of FECs with different overheads.