Lowering Error Floors for Hard Decision Decoding of OFEC Code

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new algorithm to remove stall patterns in hard decision decoding of OFEC codes, significantly reducing the error floor and improving decoding performance.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel stall pattern removal algorithm that effectively lowers the error floor in OFEC code decoding, enhancing existing decoding algorithms.

Findings

Error floor reduced by an order of magnitude

Algorithm effectively removes stall patterns

Improved decoding performance demonstrated

Abstract

Stall patterns are known to cause an error floor in hard decision decoding of the OFEC code. We propose a novel stall pattern removal algorithm that lowers the error floor of state-of-the-art algorithms by an order of magnitude