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Polar codes are the first class of capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. They have been selected as one of the coding schemes for the 5G communication systems due to their excellent error correction performance when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-23 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Chi-ying Tsui

Bit flipping can be used as a postprocessing technique to further improve the performance for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. However, the number of bit-flipping trials could increase the decoding latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wei Zhang , Xiaofu Wu

Since its invention, polar code has received a lot of attention because of its capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiajie Li , Sihui Shen , Warren J. Gross

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

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

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

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

Due to the sequential nature of the successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm, the decoding of polar codes suffers from significant decoding latencies. Fast SC decoding is able to speed up the SC decoding process, by implementing parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yang Lu , Ming-Min Zhao , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

The recently-discovered polar codes are widely seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory. These codes achieve the capacity of many important channels under successive cancellation decoding. Motivated by the rapid progress in the theory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Camille Leroux , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

In this work, we present a simplified successive cancellation list decoder that uses a Chase-like decoding process to achieve a six time improvement in speed compared to successive cancellation list decoding while maintaining the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

A successive cancellation (SC) decoder with inactivations is proposed as an efficient implementation of SC list (SCL) decoding over the binary erasure channel. The proposed decoder assigns a dummy variable to an information bit whenever it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Joachim Neu , Henry D. Pfister

Polar codes is promising because they can provably achieve the channel capacity while having an explicit construction method. Lots of work have been done for the bit-based decoding algorithm for polar codes. In this paper, generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

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

A novel SC decoding method of polar codes is proposed in $d$-deletion channels, where a new pruning strategy is designed to reduce decoding complexity. Considering the difference of the scenario weight distributions, pruning thresholds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-22 He Sun , Rongke Liu , Bin Dai

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

We study faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel. To this end, we introduce a simple erasure-based fault model and we show that, under this model, polarization does not happen, meaning that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

In this letter, we propose an adaptive SC (Successive Cancellation)-List decoder for polar codes with CRC. This adaptive SC-List decoder iteratively increases the list size until the decoder outputs contain at least one survival path which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Bin Li , Hui Shen , David Tse

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

Polar codes are the first class of structured channel codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of binary channels with efficient encoding and decoding. In 2019, Arikan proposed a new polar coding scheme referred to as polarization-adjusted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hamid Saber , Homayoon Hatami , Jung Hyun Bae