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Autori principali: Guo, Mengqi, Zhou, Ji, Wang, Haide, Yu, Changyuan, Xin, Xiangjun, Li, Liangchuan
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19094
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author Guo, Mengqi
Zhou, Ji
Wang, Haide
Yu, Changyuan
Xin, Xiangjun
Li, Liangchuan
author_facet Guo, Mengqi
Zhou, Ji
Wang, Haide
Yu, Changyuan
Xin, Xiangjun
Li, Liangchuan
contents To meet the high-speed, low-latency, and low-complexity demand for optical interconnects, simplified maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) is proposed in this paper. Simplified MLSE combines computational simplification and reduced state in MLSE. MLSE with a parallel sliding block architecture reduces latency from linear order to logarithmic order. Computational simplification reduces the number of multipliers from exponential order to linear order. Incorporating the reduced state with computational simplification further decreases the number of adders and comparators. The simplified MLSE is evaluated in a 112-Gbit/s PAM4 transmission over 2-km standard single-mode fiber. Experimental results show that the simplified MLSE significantly outperforms the FFE-only case in bit error ratio (BER) performance. Compared with simplified 1-step MLSE, the latency of simplified MLSE is reduced from 34 delay units in linear order to 7 delay units in logarithmic order. The simplified scheme in MLSE reduces the number of variable multipliers from 512 in exponential order to 33 in linear order without BER performance deterioration, while reducing the number of adders and comparators to 37.2% and 8.4%, respectively, with nearly identical BER performance.
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spellingShingle Low-Latency and Low-Complexity MLSE for Short-Reach Optical Interconnects
Guo, Mengqi
Zhou, Ji
Wang, Haide
Yu, Changyuan
Xin, Xiangjun
Li, Liangchuan
Information Theory
To meet the high-speed, low-latency, and low-complexity demand for optical interconnects, simplified maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) is proposed in this paper. Simplified MLSE combines computational simplification and reduced state in MLSE. MLSE with a parallel sliding block architecture reduces latency from linear order to logarithmic order. Computational simplification reduces the number of multipliers from exponential order to linear order. Incorporating the reduced state with computational simplification further decreases the number of adders and comparators. The simplified MLSE is evaluated in a 112-Gbit/s PAM4 transmission over 2-km standard single-mode fiber. Experimental results show that the simplified MLSE significantly outperforms the FFE-only case in bit error ratio (BER) performance. Compared with simplified 1-step MLSE, the latency of simplified MLSE is reduced from 34 delay units in linear order to 7 delay units in logarithmic order. The simplified scheme in MLSE reduces the number of variable multipliers from 512 in exponential order to 33 in linear order without BER performance deterioration, while reducing the number of adders and comparators to 37.2% and 8.4%, respectively, with nearly identical BER performance.
title Low-Latency and Low-Complexity MLSE for Short-Reach Optical Interconnects
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19094