This paper presents an improved FEC decoder design outperforming Chase-Pyndiah decoding of product codes by 0.23 dB. To achieve this, the decoder does not require iteration-dependent coefficients, making it implementation-friendly for sliding-window decoding of staircase codes.
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@article{arxiv.2605.13201,
title = {Decoding Product Codes and Staircase Codes with Iteration-Independent Weighting Coefficients},
author = {Andreas Straßhofer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13201},
year = {2026}
}