Title :
Soft-information quality analysis for optimum soft-decision forward error correction
Author :
Pflüger, Doris ; Zhao, Yu ; Qi, Juan ; Hauske, Fabian N. ; Bauch, Gerhard
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Process., UniBW Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
Abstract :
For optimum soft-decision FEC decoding the reduction of the pre-FEC BER but also the quality of the input signal are crucial. We propose the L-value test for reliable prediction of post-FEC BER performance.
Keywords :
decoding; error statistics; forward error correction; reliability; FEC decoding; L-value test; input signal quality; optimum soft-decision forward error correction; post-FEC BER performance; pre-FEC BER; soft-information quality analysis; Bit error rate; Decoding; Demodulation; Digital signal processing; Forward error correction; High definition video; Optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358726
