TY - JOUR
T1 - Hard-Decision Coded Modulation for High-Throughput Short-Reach Optical Interconnect
AU - Chen, Bin
AU - Lei, Yi
AU - Liga, Gabriele
AU - Okonkwo, Chigo M.
AU - Alvarado, Alex
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Coded modulation (CM), a combination of forward error correction (FEC) and high order modulation formats, has become a key part of modern optical communication systems. Designing CM schemes with strict complexity requirements for optical communications (e.g., data center interconnects) is still challenging mainly because of the expected low latency, low overhead, and the stringent high data rate requirements. In this paper, we propose a CM scheme with bit-wise hard-decision FEC and geometric shaping. In particular, we propose to combine the recently introduced soft-aided bit-marking decoding algorithm for staircase codes (SCCs) with geometrically-shaped constellations. The main goal of this CM scheme is to jointly boost the coding gain and provide shaping gain, while keeping the complexity low. When compared to existing CM systems based on M-ary quadrature-amplitude modulation (MQAM, M=64,128,256 ) and conventional decoding of SCCs, the proposed scheme shows improvements of up to 0.83 dB at a bit-error rate of 10−6 in the additive white Gaussian noise channel. For a nonlinear optical fiber system, simulation results show up to 24% reach increase. In addition, the proposed CM scheme enables rate adaptivity in single-wavelength systems, offering six different data rates between 450 Gbit/s and 666 Gbit/s.
AB - Coded modulation (CM), a combination of forward error correction (FEC) and high order modulation formats, has become a key part of modern optical communication systems. Designing CM schemes with strict complexity requirements for optical communications (e.g., data center interconnects) is still challenging mainly because of the expected low latency, low overhead, and the stringent high data rate requirements. In this paper, we propose a CM scheme with bit-wise hard-decision FEC and geometric shaping. In particular, we propose to combine the recently introduced soft-aided bit-marking decoding algorithm for staircase codes (SCCs) with geometrically-shaped constellations. The main goal of this CM scheme is to jointly boost the coding gain and provide shaping gain, while keeping the complexity low. When compared to existing CM systems based on M-ary quadrature-amplitude modulation (MQAM, M=64,128,256 ) and conventional decoding of SCCs, the proposed scheme shows improvements of up to 0.83 dB at a bit-error rate of 10−6 in the additive white Gaussian noise channel. For a nonlinear optical fiber system, simulation results show up to 24% reach increase. In addition, the proposed CM scheme enables rate adaptivity in single-wavelength systems, offering six different data rates between 450 Gbit/s and 666 Gbit/s.
KW - Coded modulation
KW - Error correcting codes
KW - Geometric shaping
KW - Hard decision decoding
KW - Optical fiber communications
KW - Staircase codes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086663730&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/e22040400
DO - 10.3390/e22040400
M3 - Article
C2 - 33286174
VL - 22
JO - Entropy
JF - Entropy
SN - 1099-4300
IS - 4
M1 - 400
ER -