My. Cheung et al., COMBINED FRAMING AND ERROR-CORRECTION CODING FOR THE DS3 SIGNAL FORMAT, IEEE transactions on communications, 43(2-4), 1995, pp. 1365-1374
This paper proposes and analyzes a combined framing and error control
scheme for the DS3 format in which the primary framing bits are replac
ed with parity check bits of a rate 0.9912 extended and shortened Hamm
ing code. A fast syndrome computation scheme is developed for the code
to facilitate faster reframe times. The proposed scheme has better ov
erall reframing performance than conventional framing, and reduces the
output BER to approximately 1360P(c)(2). This is effective against er
ror-rate floors or ''dribble error'' phenomena in fiber optical transm
ission. Primary applications are in advanced inservice performance mon
itoring and for throughput enhancement in ATM networking applications
using leased DS3 carrier signals.