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Research on polar codes has been constantly gaining attention over the last decade, by academia and industry alike, thanks to their capacity-achieving error-correction performance and low-complexity decoding algorithms. Recently, they have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

Polar codes are a new family of error correction codes for which efficient hardware architectures have to be defined for the encoder and the decoder. Polar codes are decoded using the successive cancellation decoding algorithm that includes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Guillaume Berhault , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jego , Dominique Dallet

Ar{\i}kan's polar coding, is by now a well studied technique that allows achieving the symmetric capacity of binary input memoryless channels with low complexity encoding and decoding, provided that the polar decoding architecture is used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mine Alsan

Polar codes are introduced for discrete memoryless broadcast channels. For $m$-user deterministic broadcast channels, polarization is applied to map uniformly random message bits from $m$ independent messages to one codeword while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Naveen Goela , Emmanuel Abbe , Michael Gastpar

Due to the sequential nature of the successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm, the decoding of polar codes suffers from significant decoding latencies. Fast SC decoding is able to speed up the SC decoding process, by implementing parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yang Lu , Ming-Min Zhao , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

Polar codes are constructed for arbitrary channels by imposing an arbitrary quasigroup structure on the input alphabet. Just as with "usual" polar codes, the block error probability under successive cancellation decoding is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Rajai Nasser , Emre Telatar

Multi-kernel polar codes have recently been proposed to construct polar codes of lengths different from powers of two. Decoder implementations for multi-kernel polar codes need to account for this feature, that becomes critical in memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Valerio Bioglio , Carlo Condo , Ingmar Land

Even though polar codes were adopted in the latest 5G cellular standard, they still have the fundamental problem of high decoding latency. Aiming at solving this problem, a fast simplified successive cancellation (Fast-SSC) decoder based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Haotian Zheng , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Zizheng Cao , Ton Koonen

Polar coding is a recently proposed coding technique that can provably achieve the channel capacity. The polar code structure, which is based on the original 2x2 generator matrix, polarises the channels, i.e., a portion of the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Berksan Serbetci , Ali Emre Pusane

In this paper, faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel is studied. To this end, a simple erasure-based fault model is introduced to represent errors in the decoder and it is shown that, under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

Polar codes has been selected as 5G standard. However, only a couple of ASIC featuring decoders are fabricated,and none of them support list size L > 4 and code length N > 1024. This paper presents an ASIC implementation of three decoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Xiaocheng Liu , Qifan Zhang , Pengcheng Qiu , Jiajie Tong , Huazi Zhang , Changyong Zhao , Jun Wang

A new permutation decoding approach for polar codes is presented. The complexity of the algorithm is similar to that of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder, while it can be implemented with the latency of a successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

We present a rate-compatible polar coding scheme that achieves the capacity of any family of channels. Our solution generalizes the previous results [1], [2] that provide capacity-achieving rate-compatible polar codes for a degraded family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Ivana Marić , Dennis Hui , Song-Nam Hong

Polar codes have gained significant amount of attention during the past few years and have been selected as a coding scheme for the next generation of mobile broadband standard. Among decoding schemes, successive-cancellation list (SCL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are a class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of practical channels under the low-complexity successive-cancellation flip (SCF) decoding algorithm. However, the SCF decoding algorithm has a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Pascal Giard

A rateless coding scheme transmits incrementally more and more coded bits over an unknown channel until all the information bits are decoded reliably by the receiver. We propose a new rateless coding scheme based on polar codes, and we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Bin Li , David Tse , Kai Chen , Hui Shen

Polar codes are widely considered as one of the most exciting recent discoveries in channel coding. For short to moderate block lengths, their error-correction performance under list decoding can outperform that of other modern…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Pascal Giard , Andreas Burg

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

In this work, we investigate the performance of polar codes with the assistance of feedback in communication systems. Although it is well known that feedback does not improve the capacity of memoryless channels, we show that the finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Liping Li , Baoming Bai

Hypernetworks were recently shown to improve the performance of message passing algorithms for decoding error correcting codes. In this work, we demonstrate how hypernetworks can be applied to decode polar codes by employing a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf