Title :
Efficient FEC for Optical Communications using Concatenated Codes to Combat Error-floor
Author :
Miyata, Yoshikuni ; Matsumoto, Wataru ; Yoshida, Hiroyuki ; Mizuochi, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
We propose concatenated LDPC(9252,7967)+RS(992,956) codes for application to systems beyond 40 Gb/s, taking practical implementation into account. Simulation shows that the Q limit is 7.1 dB, and that the concatenation effectively suppresses unwanted error-floor.
Keywords :
Reed-Solomon codes; concatenated codes; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; parity check codes; LDPC codes; Reed-Solomon codes; concatenated codes; forward error correction; optical communications; Bit error rate; Concatenated codes; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Large scale integration; Optical fiber communication; Parity check codes; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528592
