Third generation FEC employing turbo product code for long-haul DWDM transmission systems

Author

Akita, Masashi ; Fujita, Hachiro ; Mizuochi, Takashi ; Kubo, Kazuo ; Yoshida, Hideo ; Kuno, Katsuhiko ; Kurahashi, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Inf. & Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

290

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design concept of the third generation forward error correction (FEC) employing turbo product code (TPC) based on BCH product code using soft input soft output iterative decoding. The proposed TPC is composed of two constituent BCH codes, BCH(128,113,6) and BCH(256,239,6), so that the TPC has minimum distance 36 and code rate 0.82 (21.3% of redundancy). Simulation results demonstrate a coding gain of 10.1 dB, which can be applied to the next generation submarine cable systems.

Keywords

forward error correction; iterative decoding; optical cables; optical fibre networks; submarine cables; turbo codes; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.1 dB; BCH codes; BCH product code; code rate; coding gain; long-haul DWDM transmission systems; next generation submarine cable systems; soft input soft output iterative decoding; third generation FEC; third generation forward error correction; turbo product code; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; High speed optical techniques; Iterative decoding; Optical crosstalk; Optical receivers; Product codes; Quantization; Underwater cables; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036367

Filename

1036367