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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 are one of the most recent advancements in coding theory and they have attracted significant interest. While they are provably capacity achieving over various channels, they have seen limited practical applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Georgios Karakonstantis , Andreas Burg

We investigate the use of modern code-agnostic decoders to convert CA-SCL from an incomplete decoder to a complete one. When CA-SCL fails to identify a codeword that passes the CRC check, we apply a code-agnostic decoder that identifies a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jiewei Feng , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

Monotone chain polar codes generalize classical polar codes to multivariate settings, offering a flexible approach for achieving the entire admissible rate region in the distributed lossless coding problem. However, this flexibility also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zichang Ren , Chunhang Zheng , Dou Li , Yuping Zhao

This paper characterizes the latency of the simplified successive-cancellation (SSC) decoding scheme for polar codes under hardware resource constraints. In particular, when the number of processing elements $P$ that can perform SSC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

This paper formulates the polar-code construction problem for the successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoder as a maze-traversing game, which can be solved by reinforcement learning techniques. The proposed method provides a novel technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yun Liao , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

A successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder with limited list size for polar codes can not be analyzed as a successive cancellation (SC) decoder, nor as a maximum likelihood (ML) decoder, due to the complicated decoding errors caused by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Daiming Qu , Tao Jiang

Polar codes are able to achieve the capacity of memoryless channels under successive cancellation (SC) decoding. Soft Cancellation (SCAN) is a soft-output decoder based on the SC schedule, useful in iterative decoding and concatenation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Charles Pillet , Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio

Recently, automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) has drawn research interest as a more computationally efficient alternative to successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. Although AED has demonstrated superior performance for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Marvin Geiselhart , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

We show that the performance of iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding of polar codes can be enhanced by decoding over different carefully chosen factor graph realizations. With a genie-aided stopping condition, it can achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Polar codes are a class of linear error-correction codes that have received a lot of attention due to their ability to achieve channel capacity in an arbitrary binary discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) with low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard

Multilevel coding (MLC) is a coded modulation technique which can achieve excellent performance over a range of communication channels. Polar codes have been shown to be quite compatible with communication systems using MLC, as the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Muhammad Zaeem Hasan , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Mark F. Flanagan

After the pursuit of seventy years, the invention of polar codes indicates that we have found the first capacity-achieving coding with low complexity construction and decoding, which is the great breakthrough of the coding theory in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kai Niu , Ping Zhang , Jincheng Dai , Zhongwei Si , Chao Dong

Polar codes under successive cancellation decoding proposed by Ar{\i}kan provably achieve the symmetric capacity of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel. The successive cancellation list decoder for polar codes was described…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Zhuo Li , Lijuan Xing , Ba-Zhong Shen

Reed-Muller (RM) and polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving channel coding schemes with the same factor graph representation. Low-complexity decoding algorithms fall short in providing a good error-correction performance for RM and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

New algorithms for efficient decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC-augmented), transmitted over either a binary erasure channel (BEC) or an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC), are presented. We start by presenting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yonatan Urman , Guy Mogilevsky , David Burshtein

Polar codes provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a memoryless channel while having an explicit construction. This work aims to increase the throughput of polar decoder hardware by an order of magnitude relative to the state of the art…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

A polar-coded transmission (PCT) scheme with joint channel estimation and decoding is proposed for channels with unknown channel state information (CSI). The CSI is estimated via successive cancellation (SC) decoding and the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Peihong Yuan , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gerhard Kramer

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

A reduced complexity sequential decoding algorithm for polar (sub)codes is described. The proposed approach relies on a decomposition of the polar (sub)code being decoded into a number of outer codes, and on-demand construction of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Nikolay Iakuba , Stanislav Rets , Kirill Ivanov , Peter Trifonov