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Improved Chase-Pyndiah Decoding for Product Codes with Scaled Messages

Information Theory 2026-04-23 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We propose an enhanced Chase-Pyndiah decoder that scales extrinsic messages based on decoder confidence of the component decoder, achieving a 0.1 dB gain over the original with negligible complexity increase.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.20555,
  title  = {Improved Chase-Pyndiah Decoding for Product Codes with Scaled Messages},
  author = {Sisi Miao and Mert Birincioglu and Laurent Schmalen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20555},
  year   = {2026}
}
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