Design of Direct Error Pattern Testing (DEPT)-Based Iterative Decoder For Open Forward Error Correction (oFEC) Standard

Abstract

oFEC is a recently proposed coding scheme with high error correction reliability and efficiency. Existing literature proposes using the Chase-Pyndiah decoding algorithm on oFEC. However, in this paper, it focuses on adopting a DEPT-based iterative decoder on oFEC, whose decoding performance is theoretically higher than that of Chase, and evaluating its error correction performance.