[MB2] Advanced PAM Systems

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

Invited

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.