For high-throughput communications, such as high-speed fiber optics or 8K video streaming, minimizing the complexity and power consumption of the decoding process is crucial. Soft-decision decoding (SDD), which provides state-of-the-art coding gains, is typically impractical in such scenarios due to its high complexity. In contrast, hard-decision decoding (HDD) is highly power-efficient but offers lower coding gains. Hybrid decoding aims to enhance HDD by incorporating soft information without significantly increasing complexity. The student's task is to review and compare some solutions from the literature concerning hybrid decoding of product-like codes.

• IBDD with scaled reliability/ combined reliability - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8832202 / https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9435057
• Soft-Aided bit marking - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8856224
• Anchor decoding - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8316914
• Dynamic reliability score decoder - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9868117

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