Zipper Codes: Spatially-Coupled Product-Like Codes with Iterative Algebraic Decoding

We introduce zipper codes, a new framework for describing spatially-coupled product-like codes. This framework consists of a zipping pair, an interleaver map, and a constituent code. Some constructions of well-known codes can be represented in this framework. Simulation results show that a rate 0.98 tiled diagonal zipper code with a triple-error-correcting constituent code can achieve 0.49 dB gap from capacity.