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Polar codes are a class of capacity achieving error correcting codes that has been recently selected for the next generation of wireless communication standards (5G). Polar code decoding algorithms have evolved in various directions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

Due to their capacity-achieving property, polar codes have become one of the most attractive channel codes. To date, the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is the primary approach that can guarantee outstanding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

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

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more…

Polar codes represent one of the major recent breakthroughs in coding theory and, because of their attractive features, they have been selected for the incoming 5G standard. As such, a lot of attention has been devoted to the development of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes have attracted much attention in the past decade due to their capacity-achieving performance. The higher decoding capacity is required for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Although the cyclic redundancy check (CRC)- assisted successive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Chun-Hsiang Chen , Chieh-Fang Teng , An-Yeu Wu

The successive cancellation list decoding algorithm for polar codes yields near-optimal decoding performance at the cost of high implementation complexity. The successive cancellation stack algorithm has been shown to provide similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Harsh Aurora , Warren J. Gross

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is a powerful method that can help polar codes achieve excellent error-correcting performance. However, the current SCL algorithm and decoders are based on likelihood or log-likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Under successive cancellation (SC) decoding, polar codes are inferior to other codes of similar blocklength in terms of frame error rate. While more sophisticated decoding algorithms such as list- or stack-decoding partially mitigate this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Orion Afisiadis , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

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

Polar codes provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. This assumes infinite precision arithmetic. Given the successive nature of the decoding algorithm, one might worry about the sensitivity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuqing Ren , Leyu Zhang , Ludovic Damien Blanc , Yifei Shen , Xinwei Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

A heuristic construction of polar codes for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding with a given list size is proposed to balance the trade-off between performance measured in frame error rate (FER) and decoding complexity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Peihong Yuan , Tobias Prinz , Georg Böcherer , Onurcan İşcan , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

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

Due to the low-latency and high-reliability requirements of 5G, low-complexity node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention for use in 5G communications systems. By identifying special…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yuqing Ren , Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen , Yifei Shen , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

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

The recently proposed SCLF decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SCL decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In this paper, partitioned polar codes tailored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Pascal Giard

Polar codes have become one of the most favorable capacity achieving error correction codes (ECC) along with their simple encoding method. However, among the very few prior successive cancellation (SC) polar decoder designs, the required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Chuan Zhang , Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Polar codes can be decoded with the low-complexity successive-cancellation flip (SCF) algorithm. To improve error-correction performance, the dynamic successive-cancellation flip (DSCF) variant was proposed, where the resulting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Ilshat Sagitov , Pascal Giard

The prevailing opinion in industry and academia is that polar codes are competitive for short code lengths, but can no longer keep up with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as block length increases. This view is typically based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Felix Krieg , Marvin Rübenacke , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink