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The key to successive cancellation (SC) flip decoding of polar codes is to accurately identify the first error bit. The optimal flipping strategy is considered difficult due to lack of an analytical solution. Alternatively, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xianbin Wang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Lingchen Huang , Shengchen Dai , Yourui Huangfu , Jun Wang

Polar codes are a class of linear error correction codes which provably attain channel capacity with infinite codeword lengths. Finite length polar codes have been adopted into the 5th Generation 3GPP standard for New Radio, though their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Adam Cavatassi , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

We analyze successive cancellation (SC) decoder by using two random functions. The first function is related to the likelihoods of 0 and 1 in each code position, while the second gives the difference between their posterior probabilities.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ilya Dumer

This work presents a fast successive-cancellation list flip (Fast-SCLF) decoding algorithm for polar codes that addresses the high latency issue associated with the successive-cancellation list flip (SCLF) decoding algorithm. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

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

In this paper, we present a novel decoding algorithm of a polar code, named SC-Fano decoding, by appropriately incorporating the Fano sequential decoding into the standard successive-cancellation (SC) decoding. The proposed SC-Fano decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Min-Oh Jeong , Song-Nam Hong

We show that successive cancellation list decoding can be formulated exclusively using log-likelihood ratios. In addition to numerical stability, the log-likelihood ratio based formulation has useful properties which simplify the sorting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Mani Bastani Parizi , Andreas Burg

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

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 capacity-achieving codes for the binary-input discrete memoryless channels (B-DMCs). However, when applied in channels with intersymbol interference (ISI), the codes may perform poorly with BCJR equalization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Runxin Wang , Rongke Liu , Yi Hou

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

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

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding enables polar codes and their generalizations to deliver satisfactory performance in finite-length scenarios but it comes with high latency and complexity. To reduce latency, a partitioned SCL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

This paper first presents a new approach to evaluating the descriptive complexity of finite-length binary sequences. Specifically, we investigate the sequence-wise recovery behavior induced by polar compression and successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

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

Polar codes are a class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of practical channels. The successive-cancellation flip (SCF) decoder is a low-complexity decoder that was proposed to improve the performance of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard

We exploit the redundancy of the language-based source to help polar decoding. By judging the validity of decoded words in the decoded sequence with the help of a dictionary, the polar list decoder constantly detects erroneous paths after…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ying Wang , Minghai Qin , Krishna R. Narayanan , Anxiao Jiang , Zvonimir Bandic

This paper investigates the error probability of a stochastic decision and the way in which it differs from the error probability of an optimal decision, i.e., the maximum a posteriori decision. This paper calls attention to the fact that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jun Muramatsu , Shigeki Miyake

We consider hard-decision iterative decoders for product codes over the erasure channel, which employ repeated rounds of decoding rows and columns alternatingly. We derive the exact asymptotic probability of decoding failure as a function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Moshe Schwartz , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy

Successive cancellation (SC) process is an essential component of various decoding algorithms used for polar codes and their variants. Rewinding this process seems trivial if we have access to all intermediate log-likelihood ratios (LLRs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mohammad Rowshan , Emanuele Viterbo