Turbo Decoding with Run Length Limited Code for Optical Storage
Eiji Yamada, Tetsuo Iwaki, Takeshi Yamaguchi · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 2002
A new turbo decoding method with a run length limited (RLL) code for optical storage is proposed. The system entails a trellis code that joins the RLL code, the non-return-to-zero inverse (NRZI) conversion, and the partial response (PR) channel as the inner code. The inner a posteriori probability (APP) decoder is able to utilize the extrinsic information fed back from the output of the outer decoder. A turbo-coded (1, 7)RLL-constrained PR2 channel was simulated. The full, partial, and serial turbo decoding systems with the inner APP decoder achieved coding gains of 4.7 dB, 4.3 dB, and 3.3 dB, respectively, over the uncoded (1, 7)RLL-constrained PR2 channel at a bit error rate (BER) of 10 -5 . The full and partial turbos were also improved by 1.2 dB and 0.8 dB, respectively, over the partial turbo with the RLL soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoder at a BER of 10 -5 .