We propose a novel soft-aided hard-decision decoding algorithm for general product-like codes. It achieves error correcting performance similar to that of a soft-decision turbo decoder for staircase and OFEC codes, while maintaining a low complexity.
@article{arxiv.2404.19532,
title = {Optimized Soft-Aided Decoding of OFEC and Staircase Codes},
author = {Lukas Rapp and Sisi Miao and Laurent Schmalen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19532},
year = {2024}
}