Forward error correction (FEC) notes

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May 17, 2018 - Forward error correction (FEC). →. Hard Decision (HD) FEC uses single decoded bits: 1 or 0. →. Soft Decision (SD) FEC uses the probabilities:.
5/17/2018

Forward error correction (FEC) Corrected BER vs. system Q, FEC & NCG for QPSK

Maximum NCG vs. maximum FEC rate (10-15 ref. BER)

0

19 18 17

Log(BER)

16 15

-5

14

NCG dB





12 11 10

-10

-15

13

G.975 6.2 dB BCH-20 7.4 dB

1

2

3

9

BCH-3 4 dB

BCH-1 2.4 dB

8 7 6

Un-coded

5 0.5

4 5 6 Quality factor

7

8

1

0.55

0.6

0.65

0.7

0.75

0.8

0.85

0.9

0.95

1

Maximum FEC rate

Hard Decision (HD) FEC uses single decoded bits: 1 or 0 Soft Decision (SD) FEC uses the probabilities: log Pr 0  – SD FEC requires more gates and more wires.



QPSK soft_D 16QAM soft_D 64QAM soft_D QPSK hard_D 16QAM hard_D 64QAM hard_D

log Pr 1 

At same overhead, NCGSD FEC  NCGHD FEC ~1.5 dB for QPSK

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NCG vs. maximum FEC rate re-calculated to correct error in original simulation. NCG values are reduced.

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