Distributed rate-adaptive staircase codes for connectionless optical metro networks

We demonstrate a multipoint-to-point network architecture for optical metro networks with distributed FEC encoding based on modified staircase codes. We present a simple rate-adaptation scheme and demonstrate throughput maximization on the network.

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