This paper presents an improved FEC decoder design outperforming Chase-Pyndiah decoding of product codes by $0.23$ dB. To achieve this, the decoder does not require iteration-dependent coefficients, making it implementation-friendly for sliding-window decoding of staircase codes.

翻译：本文提出一种改进型前向纠错译码器设计，相较于乘积码的Chase-Pyndiah译码方案可获得0.23 dB的性能增益。该译码方案无需依赖迭代次数的加权系数，因此便于在阶梯码滑动窗译码中实现。