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Polar codes attract more and more attention of researchers in recent years, since its capacity achieving property. However, their error-correction performance under successive cancellation (SC) decoding is inferior to other modern channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-11 Yu Wang , Lirui Chen , Qinglin Wang , Yang Zhang , Zuocheng Xing

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

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

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

We propose a low complexity list successive cancellation (LCLSC) decoding algorithm to reduce complexity of traditional list successive cancellation (LSC) decoding of polar codes while trying to maintain the LSC decoding performance at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Congzhe Cao , Zesong Fei , Jinhong Yuan , Jingming Kuang

Benefiting from performance advantages under short code lengths, polar codes are well-suited for certain scenarios, such as the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications that require high reliability and low power. Existing list flip…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yansong Lv , Jingxin Dai , Yuhuan Wang , Hang Yin , Zhanxin Yang

In this paper, we propose a decision-aided scheme for parallel SC-List decoding of polar codes. At the parallel SC-List decoder, each survival path is extended based on multiple information bits, therefore the number of split paths becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Bin Li , Hui Shen , Kai Chen

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 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

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

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

Under successive cancellation (SC) decoding, polar codes are inferior to other codes of similar blocklength in terms of frame error rate. While more sophisticated decoding algorithms such as list- or stack-decoding partially mitigate this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Orion Afisiadis , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

The discovery of suitable automorphisms of polar codes gained a lot of attention by applying them in Automorphism Ensemble Decoding (AED) to improve the error-correction performance, especially for short block lengths. This paper introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lucas Johannsen , Claus Kestel , Marvin Geiselhart , Timo Vogt , Stephan ten Brink , Norbert Wehn

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is a powerful method that can help polar codes achieve excellent error-correcting performance. However, the current SCL algorithm and decoders are based on likelihood or log-likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

We focus on the metric sorter unit of successive cancellation list decoders for polar codes, which lies on the critical path in all current hardware implementations of the decoder. We review existing metric sorter architectures and we…

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

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

In the short block length regime, pre-transformed polar codes together with successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding possess excellent error correction capabilities. However, in practice, the list size is limited due to the suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Henning Lulei , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Marvin Rübenacke , Holger Jäkel , Stephan ten Brink , Laurent Schmalen

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

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

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more…