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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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a method to obtain the optimal metric function at each depth of the polarization tree through a process we call polarization of the metric function. This polarization process generates an optimal metric at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

While long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels when decoded by a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm, the error performance of the SC algorithm is inferior for polar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

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

In successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, the tree pruning operation retains the L best paths with respect to metric at every decoding step. However, the correct path might be among the L worst paths due to imposed penalties. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Mohammad Rowshan , Emanuele Viterbo

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

The decoding performance of polar codes strongly depends on the decoding algorithm used, while also the decoder throughput and its latency mainly depend on the decoding algorithm. In this work, we implement the powerful successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Sebastian Cammerer , Benedikt Leible , Matthias Stahl , Jakob Hoydis , Stephan ten Brink

Polar codes are a class of channel capacity achieving codes that has been selected for the next generation of wireless communication standards. Successive-cancellation (SC) is the first proposed decoding algorithm, suffering from mediocre…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , 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

Non-binary linear block codes (NB-LBCs) are an important class of error-correcting codes that are especially competent in correcting burst errors. They have broad applications in modern communications and storage systems. However, efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingyu Lin , Li Chen , Xiaoqian Ye

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 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

This work analyzes the latency of the simplified successive cancellation (SSC) decoding scheme for polar codes proposed by Alamdar-Yazdi and Kschischang. It is shown that, unlike conventional successive cancellation decoding, where latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Marco Mondelli , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

We propose a new framework for constructing polar codes (i.e., selecting the frozen bit positions) for arbitrary channels, and tailored to a given decoding algorithm, rather than based on the (not necessarily optimal) assumption of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

This paper focuses on the frozen set design for precoded polar codes decoded by the successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm. We propose a novel frozen set design method, whose computational complexity is low due to the use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Vera Miloslavskaya , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

For polar codes with short-to-medium code length, list successive cancellation decoding is used to achieve a good error-correcting performance. However, list pruning in the current list decoding is based on the sorting strategy and its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-30 YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , ChenYang Xia , Chi-ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

In this paper, we design a polar decoding platform for diverse application scenarios that require low-cost and low-power communications. Specifically, prevalent polar decoders such as successive cancellation (SC), SC-list (SCL) and Fano…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jiajie Tong , Qifan Zhang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Wen Tong

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