FEC in optical communications - A tutorial overview on the evolution of architectures and the future prospects of outband and inband FEC for optical communications

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 79-86

  Tychopoulos, Afxendios ^a   Koufopavlou, Odysseas ^a   Tomkos, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; ITERATIVE DECODING; OPTICAL LINKS; REED-SOLOMON CODES; SIGNAL ENCODING;

LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK; MAXIMUM DISTANCE SEPARABLE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33947417719     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCD.2006.307281     Document Type: Article

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