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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

Polar codes are of great interest since they are the first provably capacity-achieving forward error correction codes. To improve throughput and to reduce decoding latency of polar decoders, maximum likelihood (ML) decoding units are used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

The successive cancellation list decoder (SCL) is an efficient decoder for classical polar codes with low decoding error, approximating the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for small list sizes. Here we adapt the SCL to the task of decoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Joseph M. Renes

In theory, Polar codes do not exhibit an error floor under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding. In practice, frame error rate (FER) down to $10^{-12}$ has not been reported with a real SC list (SCL) decoder hardware. This paper presents…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Jiajie Tong , Huazi Zhang , Lingchen Huang , Xiaocheng Liu , Jun Wang

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

This paper presents an efficient hardware design approach for list successive cancellation (LSC) decoding of polar codes. By applying path-overlapping scheme, the l instances of (l > 1) successive cancellation (SC) decoder for LSC with list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Tiben Che , Jingwei Xu , Gwan Choi

Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided polar codes are capable of achieving better performance than low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes under the successive cancelation list (SCL) decoding scheme. However, the SCL decoding scheme suffers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Mao-Ching Chiu , Wei-De Wu

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoders of polar codes excel in practical performance but pose challenges for theoretical analysis. Existing works either limit their scope to erasure channels or address general channels without taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hsin-Po Wang , Venkatesan Guruswami

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

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 the first class of forward error correction (FEC) codes with a provably capacity-achieving capability. Using list successive cancellation decoding (LSCD) with a large list size, the error correction performance of polar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-ying Tsui , ChongYang Zeng , Jie Jin , Bin Li

Polar codes have attracted the attention of numerous researchers in the past decade due to their excellent performance. However, their performance at short block lengths under standard successive cancellation decoding is far from desirable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Wei Zhang

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 interest in polar codes has been increasing significantly since their adoption for use in the 5$^{\rm th}$ generation wireless systems standard. Successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm has low implementation complexity, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

The 5th generation wireless systems (5G) standardization process of the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) chose polar codes as a channel coding scheme for the control channel. In case of downlink control information, polar codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Charles Pillet , Valerio Bioglio , Carlo Condo

Polar codes under cyclic redundancy check aided successive cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding can outperform the turbo codes and the LDPC codes when code lengths are configured to be several kilobits. In order to reduce the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Kai Chen , Bin Li , Hui Shen , Jie Jin , David Tse

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

The soft-output successive cancellation list (SOSCL) decoder provides a methodology for estimating the a-posteriori probability log-likelihood ratios by only leveraging the conventional SCL decoder for polar codes. However, the sequential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Yin Xu , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Wenjun Zhang

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 have gained extensive attention during the past few years and recently they have been selected for the next generation of wireless communications standards (5G). Successive-cancellation-based (SC-based) decoders, such as SC list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross