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We consider achieving the rates in the capacity region of a multi-level 3-receiver broadcast channel, in which the second receiver is degraded with respect to the first receiver, with degraded message sets. We propose a two-level chaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Karthik Nagarjuna Tunuguntla , Paul H. Siegel

In this paper we propose an enhanced soft cancellation (SCAN) decoder for polar codes based on decoding stages permutation. The proposed soft cancellation list (SCANL) decoder runs $L$ independent SCAN decoders, each one relying on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Charles Pillet , Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio

In this paper, we analyze the delay probability of the first error position in perturbation-enhanced Successive cancellation (SC) decoding for polar codes. Our findings reveal that, asymptotically, an SC decoder's performance does not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zhicheng Liu , Liuquan Yao , Shuai Yuan , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma , Yuting Liu

CRC-Polar codes under SC list decoding are well-regarded for their competitive error performance. This paper examines these codes by focusing on minimum weight codewords, breaking them down into the rows of the polar transform. Inspired by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Xinyi Gu , Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

When a neural network (NN) is used to decode a polar code, its training complexity scales exponentially as the code block size (or to be precise, as a number of message bits) increases. Therefore, existing solutions that use a neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Evgeny Stupachenko

Polar-coded multiple-input multiple-output systems are investigated. An advanced receiver implementing joint list decoding of polar codes and QR- and MMSE-based detectors is proposed. The approximate and exact path metrics are derived for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liudmila Karakchieva , Peter Trifonov

For finite length polar codes, channel polarization leaves a significant number of channels not fully polarized. Adding a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to better protect information on the semi-polarized channels has already been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-14 A. Elkelesh , M. Ebada , S. Cammerer , S. ten Brink

This paper focuses on the recently introduced Successive Cancellation Flip (SCFlip) decoder of polar codes. Our contribution is twofold. First, we propose the use of an optimized metric to determine the flipping positions within the SCFlip…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Ludovic Chandesris , Valentin Savin , David Declercq

Hypernetworks were recently shown to improve the performance of message passing algorithms for decoding error correcting codes. In this work, we demonstrate how hypernetworks can be applied to decode polar codes by employing a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

This paper proposes a polar code construction scheme that reduces constituent-code supplemented decoding latency. Constituent codes are the sub-codewords with specific patterns. They are used to accelerate the successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Tiben Che , Gwan Choi

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

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

Polar codes based on $2\times2$ non-binary kernels are discussed in this work. The kernel over $\text{GF}(q)$ is selected by maximizing the polarization effect and using Monte-Carlo simulation. Belief propagation (BP) and successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Peihong Yuan , Fabian Steiner

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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Yin Xu , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Data center networks (DCNs) require a low-cost, low-power optical transceiver to handle increased traffic from generative artificial intelligence, video streaming services, and more. Improving the required signal-to-noise ratio (RSNR) by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Takeshi Kakizaki , Masanori Nakamura , Fukutaro Hamaoka , Shuto Yamamoto , Etsushi Yamazaki

Owing to their capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity, polar codes have drawn much research interests recently. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

An implementation-efficient finite alphabet decoder for polar codes relying on coarsely quantized messages and low-complexity operations is proposed. Typically, finite alphabet decoding performs concatenated compression operations on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Philipp Mohr , Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Gerhard Bauch

This brief introduces a hardware complexity reduction method for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoders. Specifically, we propose to use a sorting scheme so that L paths with smallest path metrics are also sorted according to their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Onur Dizdar

Sparse superimposed coding (SSC) has emerged as a promising technique for short-packet transmission in ultra-reliable low-latency communication scenarios. However, conventional SSC schemes often suffer from high encoding and decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Yanfeng Zhang , Xi'an Fan , Xu Zhu , Jinkai Zheng , Hui Liang , Weiwei Yang , Tom H. Luan