We propose a novel soft-aided hard-decision decoding algorithm for general product-like codes. It achieves error correcting performance similar to that of a soft-decision turbo decoder for staircase and OFEC codes, while maintaining a low complexity.

翻译：本文提出了一种通用乘积类码的新型软辅助硬判决解码算法。该算法在保持低复杂度的同时，对阶梯码和OFEC码实现了与软判决Turbo解码器相近的纠错性能。