A Low-Complexity Recurrent Neural Network Based Joint Equalization and Decoding Method for Trellis Coded Modulation Link in Data Center

RNN-based joint equalization and decoding methods are proposed for data center with TCM signals. Numerical results show compared with traditional DSP algorithms, our method improves power sensitivity by 2.2dB@BER=3.8×10
^-3
with 96% reduced complexity.