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An Adaptive Successive Cancellation List Decoder for Polar Codes with Cyclic Redundancy Check

Information Theory 2012-08-16 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this letter, we propose an adaptive SC (Successive Cancellation)-List decoder for polar codes with CRC. This adaptive SC-List decoder iteratively increases the list size until the decoder outputs contain at least one survival path which can pass CRC. Simulation shows that the adaptive SC-List decoder provides significant complexity reduction. We also demonstrate that polar code (2048, 1024) with 24-bit CRC decoded by our proposed adaptive SC-List decoder with very large list size can achieve a frame error rate FER=0.001 at Eb/No=1.1dB, which is about 0.2dB from the information theoretic limit at this block length.

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@article{arxiv.1208.3091,
  title  = {An Adaptive Successive Cancellation List Decoder for Polar Codes with Cyclic Redundancy Check},
  author = {Bin Li and Hui Shen and David Tse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.3091},
  year   = {2012}
}
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