Simple Computation Method of Soft Value for Iterative Decoding for Product Code Composed of Linear Block Code

Toshiyuki SHOHON
Yoshihiro SOUTOME
Haruo OGIWARA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E82-A    No.10    pp.2199-2203
Publication Date: 1999/10/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
iterative decoding,  soft-decision,  product code,  block code,  

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Summary: 
Simple computation method of soft value, that is used in iterative soft decision decoding, is proposed. For the product code composed of BCH(63, 57) and that composed of BCH(63, 45), computation time with the proposed method is 1/15-1/6 as that with a method based on the Chase algorithm. Bit error rate (BER) performance with the proposed method is within 0.8 [dB] inferior to that with the method based on the Chase algorithm at BER=10-5.