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Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Chunpo Pan, Ottawa, CA;

Inventor:

Chunpo Pan, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/29 (2006.01); H03M 13/25 (2006.01); H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01); H03M 13/11 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/0041 (2013.01); H03M 13/1177 (2013.01); H03M 13/1575 (2013.01); H03M 13/251 (2013.01); H03M 13/2942 (2013.01); H03M 13/6516 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and devices for performing rate adaptive forward error correction using a flexible irregular error-correcting code, such as a staircase code. Each codeword of the ECC uses one of two or more different encodings, each encoding having a different number of parity bits. By adjusting the proportions of codewords of each encoding included in a data block, the FEC overhead can be finely adjusted, achieving flexible levels of FEC overhead in response to increased or decreased noise or perturbations in a communication channel. Three types of flexible irregular zipper codes are described: general zipper codes, staircase codes, and oFEC codes.


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