• DocumentCode
    1177147
  • Title

    Nonbinary LDPC codes for optical communication systems

  • Author

    Djordjevic, Ivan B. ; Vasic, Bane

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    2224
  • Lastpage
    2226
  • Abstract
    We propose a class of moderate-length nonbinary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for long-haul high-speed optical transmission systems. In particular, we present an LDPC code with 12.59% redundancy that achieves a 9.9-dB coding gain at a bit-error rate of 10-10. A similar coding gain is obtained for a long nonbinary LDPC code with a redundancy of only 6.7%.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; parity check codes; bit-error rate; coding gain; long-haul high-speed optical transmission; low-density parity-check codes; nonbinary LDPC codes; redundancy; AWGN; Bit error rate; Code standards; Communication standards; Galois fields; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Parity check codes; Sparse matrices; Forward-error correction (FEC); low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes; optical communications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2005.856337
  • Filename
    1512327