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As the first kind of forward error correction (FEC) codes that achieve channel capacity, polar codes have attracted much research interest recently. Compared with other popular FEC codes, polar codes decoded by list successive cancellation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-02 ChenYang Xia , Ji Chen , YouZhe Fan , Chi-ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

We show that the binary Golay code is slightly more power efficient than the extended binary Golay code under maximum-likelihood (ML), hard-decision decoding. In fact, if a codeword from the extended code is transmitted, one cannot achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Jon Hamkins

In this work, we propose a decoding method of Golay codes from the perspective of Polarization Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) codes. By invoking Forney's cubing construction of Golay codes and their generators $G^*(8,7)/(8,4)$, we found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yujun Ji , Ling Liu , Shanxiang Lyu , Chao Chen , Tao Dai , Baoming Bai

Due to the ability to provide superior error-correction performance, the successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm is widely regarded as one of the most promising decoding algorithms for polar codes with short-to-moderate code lengths.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yang Lu , Ming-Min Zhao , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

We improve the method in \cite{Seidl:10} for increasing the finite-lengh performance of polar codes by protecting specific, less reliable symbols with simple outer repetition codes. Decoding of the scheme integrates easily in the known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Mathis Seidl , Johannes B. Huber

The so-called fast polar decoding schedules are meant to improve the decoding speed of the sequential-natured successive cancellation list decoders. The decoding speedup is achieved by replacing various parts of the serial decoding process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Gerhard Bauch

As the first error correction codes provably achieving the symmetric capacity of binary-input discrete memory-less channels (B-DMCs), polar codes have been recently chosen by 3GPP for eMBB control channel. Among existing algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Huayi Zhou , Xiao Liang , Liping Li , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

While constructing polar codes for successive-cancellation decoding can be implemented efficiently by sorting the bit-channels, finding optimal polar codes for cyclic-redundancy-check-aided successive-cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yun Liao , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Hengjie Yang , John M. Cioffi

Polar codes, discovered by Ar{\i}kan, are the first error-correcting codes with an explicit construction to provably achieve channel capacity, asymptotically. However, their error-correction performance at finite lengths tends to be lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Alexandre J. Raymond , Warren J. Gross

This paper focuses on low complexity successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. In particular, using the fact that splitting may be unnecessary when the reliability of decoding the unfrozen bit is sufficiently high, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Liang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Caijun Zhong , H. Vincent Poor

Long polar codes can achieve the symmetric capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) decoding algorithm. However, for polar codes with short and moderate code length,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has been widely adopted for polar codes, which allows near maximum likelihood performance with sufficiently large list size. In this work, we show that, if the list size is $2^\gamma$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alexander Sauter , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

While long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels when decoded by a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm, the error performance of the SC algorithm is inferior for polar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

Polar codes are capacity achieving error correcting codes that can be decoded through the successive-cancellation algorithm. To improve its error-correction performance, a list-based version called successive-cancellation list (SCL) has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

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

A deep-learning-aided successive-cancellation list (DL-SCL) decoding algorithm for polar codes is introduced with deep-learning-aided successive-cancellation (DL-SC) decoding being a specific case of it. The DL-SCL decoder works by allowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

Blind recognition of polar codes remains challenging in non-cooperative scenarios, particularly for information-set recognition with known code length. Existing methods mainly rely on threshold decisions determined by the generator-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changwei Tu , Yang Liu , Xianzhao Feng , Kai Niu

Dynamic successive cancellation flip (DSCF) decoding of polar codes is a powerful algorithm that can achieve the error correction performance of successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, with a complexity that is close to that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Furkan Ercan , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren Gross

Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented, addressing various application requirements: from…

A new algorithm for efficient exact maximum likelihood decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC augmented), transmitted over the binary erasure channel, is presented. The algorithm applies a matrix triangulation process on a sparse polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yonatan Urman , David Burshtein