Improved performance-complexity trade-offs for soft-decision decoding by channel-polarized multilevel coding
T. Kakizaki, Masanori Nakamura, Etsushi Yamazaki, Fukutaro Hamaoka, Yoshiaki Kisaka · IET conference proceedings. · 2023
Channel-polarized multilevel coding (CP-MLC) improves the net coding gain of the concatenated codes by 0.07 to 0.20 dB under short-block soft-decision FEC and KP4 codes while simultaneously reducing the complexity by 37.5% or more.