Title :
Simple improvement of error correction capability of standard FEC using repeated trial-and-error method
Author :
Leibrich, Jochen ; Rosenkranz, Werner
Author_Institution :
Chair for Commun., Kiel Univ.
Abstract :
Error correction capability of standard RS(255,239)-code is optimized within the limits of hard-decision decoding. An improvement of about 0.2 dB is achieved without noticeable increase in decoding complexity
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; Reed-Solomon codes; computational complexity; decoding; forward error correction; Monte-Carlo simulations; decoding complexity; error correction; hard-decision decoding; repeated trial-and-error method; standard FEC; standard RS(255,239)-code; Communication standards; Concatenated codes; Encoding; Error correction; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Iterative decoding; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optimization methods;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215801
