Title
Spatially coupled codes and optical fiber communications: An ideal match?
Abstract
In this paper, we highlight the class of spatially coupled codes and discuss their applicability to long-haul and submarine optical communication systems. We first demonstrate how to optimize irregular spatially coupled LDPC codes for their use in optical communications with limited decoding hardware complexity and then present simulation results with an FPGA-based decoder where we show that very low error rates can be achieved and that conventional block-based LDPC codes can be outperformed. In the second part of the paper, we focus on the combination of spatially coupled LDPC codes with different demodulators and detectors, important for future systems with adaptive modulation and for varying channel characteristics. We demonstrate that SC codes can be employed as universal, channel-agnostic coding schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SPAWC.2015.7227080
2015 IEEE 16th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Error correction codes,Low-density parity-check codes,Spatial coupling,Optical Communications
Forward error correction,Concatenated error correction code,Sequential decoding,Computer science,Low-density parity-check code,Turbo code,Block code,Serial concatenated convolutional codes,Electronic engineering,Linear code
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1505.05405
1948-3244
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Schmalen, Laurent111232.50
Detlef Suikat200.34
Detlef Rösener300.34
Vahid Aref4586.49
Andreas Leven5134.68
Stephan ten Brink62912204.86