Dynamic window decoding for LDPC convolutional codes in low-latency optical communications

We propose a dynamic window decoding scheme for LDPC convolutional codes to reduce the latency compared to the belief propagation decoding. The BER performance of our proposed memory-efficient decoding scheme is verified by simulations.

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