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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Zte (Usa) Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Zhensheng Jia, Morganville, NJ (US);
Yi Cai, Jackson, NJ (US);
Assignee:
ZTE (USA) Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); H03M 13/25 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2013.01); H03M 13/256 (2013.01); H04L 1/0047 (2013.01); H04L 1/0054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A digital communication receiver generates soft decision values at the output of a maximum likelihood sequence estimator module. The values are fed into a following forward error correction module that uses the soft-decision input signal to improve error correction performance. The disclosed techniques can be used for receiving optical signals in an optical communication network.