TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Spinner, Jens
A1  - Freudenberger, Jürgen
A1  - Shavgulidze, Sergo
T1  - A soft input decoding algorithm for generalized concatenated codes
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Communications
N2  - This paper proposes a soft input decoding algorithm and a decoder architecture for generalized concatenated (GC) codes. The GC codes are constructed from inner nested binary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes and outer Reed-Solomon codes. In order to enable soft input decoding for the inner BCH block codes, a sequential stack decoding algorithm is used. Ordinary stack decoding of binary block codes requires the complete trellis of the code. In this paper, a representation of the block codes based on the trellises of supercodes is proposed in order to reduce the memory requirements for the representation of the BCH codes. This enables an efficient hardware implementation. The results for the decoding performance of the overall GC code are presented. Furthermore, a hardware architecture of the GC decoder is proposed. The proposed decoder is well suited for applications that require very low residual error rates.
KW  - Block codes
KW  - Concatenated codes
KW  - Decoding
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 0090-6778
SS  - 0090-6778
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2590428
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2590428
N1  - Volltextzugriff für Angehörige der Hochschule Konstanz via Datenbank IEEE Xplore möglich
VL  - 64
IS  - 9
SP  - 3585
EP  - 3595
ER  -