Title
Improved Decoding and Error Floor Analysis of Staircase Codes.
Abstract
Staircase codes play an important role as error-correcting codes in optical communications. In this paper, a low-complexity method for resolving stall patterns when decoding staircase codes is described. Stall patterns are the dominating contributor to the error floor in the original decoding method. Our improvement is based on locating stall patterns by intersecting non-zero syndromes and flipping the corresponding bits. The approach effectively lowers the error floor and allows for a new range of block sizes to be considered for optical communications at a certain code rate or, alternatively, a significantly decreased error floor for the same block size. Further, an improved error floor analysis is introduced which provides a more accurate estimation of the contributions to the error floor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10623-018-0587-x
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Staircase codes, Coding, Error floor, FEC for optical communications, 94B05, 94B35
Journal
abs/1704.01893
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0925-1022
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Holzbaur166.35
Hannes Bartz265.28
Antonia Wachter-Zeh312933.65