Refined Reliability Combining for Binary Message Passing Decoding of Product Codes
Journal article, 2021

We propose a novel soft-aided iterative decoding algorithm for product codes (PCs). The proposed algorithm, named iterative bounded distance decoding with combined reliability (iBDD-CR), enhances the conventional iterative bounded distance decoding (iBDD) of PCs by exploiting some level of soft information. In particular, iBDD-CR can be seen as a modification of iBDD where the hard decisions of the row and column decoders are made based on a reliability estimate of the BDD outputs. The reliability estimates are derived by analyzing the extrinsic message passing of generalized low-density-parity check (GLDPC) ensembles, which encompass PCs. We perform a density evolution analysis of iBDD-CR for transmission over the additive white Gaussian noise channel for the GLDPC ensemble. We consider both binary transmission and bit-interleaved coded modulation with quadrature amplitude modulation. We show that iBDD-CR achieves performance gains up to 0.51 dB compared to iBDD with the same internal decoder data flow. This makes the algorithm an attractive solution for very high-throughput applications such as fiber-optic communications.

product codes

Reliability

Product codes

complexity

Message passing

quantization errors

Decoding

bounded distance decoding

Binary message passing

Throughput

hard decision decoding

high speed communications

Iterative decoding

Encoding

Author

Alireza Sheikh

Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC)

Alexandre Graell I Amat

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

G. Liva

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

A. Alvarado

Eindhoven University of Technology

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 39 15 4958-4973 9435057

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2021.3081586

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