A Soft-Aided Concatenated Staircase and Hamming Decoder Based on Bit-Flipping and Bit-Marking

This paper proposed a soft-aided decoder combining bit-flipping and bit-marking improves concatenated Staircase-Hamming code performance, achieving a post-FEC BER reduction of up to 3.38E-3 and lowering error floors under 1E-15 at 20% overhead.