Soft decoding in optical systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1258-1265

  Bosco, G ^a   Montorsi, G ^a   Benedetto, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modeling; Optical communication; Product codes; Soft decision decoding

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DECODING; TURBO CODES;

PRODUCT CODES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042819936     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.815055     Document Type: Article

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