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Performance-Complexity-Latency Trade-offs of Concatenated RS-SDBCH Codes

Information Theory 2025-01-22 v2 math.IT

Abstract

Concatenated bit-interleaved and multilevel coded modulation with outer Reed--Solomon codes, inner Chase-algorithm-based soft-decision-decoded Bose--Ray-Chaudhuri--Hocquenghem codes, and four-level pulse amplitude modulation is considered. A semi-analytical formula is derived for estimating the decoded frame error rate (FER) at the output of the additive white Gaussian noise channel, obviating the need for time-consuming Monte Carlo simulations. The formula is used to search a large space of codes (including the KP4 code) to find those achieving good trade-offs among performance (measured by the gap to the constrained Shannon limit at 101310^{-13} FER), complexity (measured by the number of elementary decoder operations), and latency (measured by overall block length).

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@article{arxiv.2411.08895,
  title  = {Performance-Complexity-Latency Trade-offs of Concatenated RS-SDBCH Codes},
  author = {Alvin Y. Sukmadji and Frank R. Kschischang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08895},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT)

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