Super-FEC Codes for 40/100 Gbps Networking

TL;DR

This paper introduces a super-product BCH code capable of near-Shannon limit performance with low decoding complexity, providing a simple method to evaluate performance bounds at very low BER for advanced coding schemes in high-speed networking.

Contribution

It proposes a novel super-product BCH code and a straightforward evaluation approach for performance bounds at extremely low BER in high-speed optical networking.

Findings

Super-product BCH code achieves near-Shannon limit performance.

New evaluation method for performance bounds at very low BER.

Applicable to 40/100 Gbps networking scenarios.

Abstract

This paper presents a simple approach to evaluate the performance bound at very low bit-error-rate (BER) range for binary pseudo-product codes and true-product codes. Moreover it introduces a super-product BCH code that can achieve near-Shannon limit performance with very low decoding complexity. This work has been accepted by IEEE Communications Letters for future publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.