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Polar codes are a new class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexity. Their low-complexity decoding algorithms rendering them attractive for use in software-defined radio applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Pascal Giard , Gabi Sarkis , Camille Leroux , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are newly discovered capacity-achieving codes, which have attracted lots of research efforts. Polar codes can be efficiently decoded by the low-complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm and the SC list (SCL) decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

As improved versions of successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding and successive cancellation stack (SCS) decoding are used to improve the finite-length performance of polar codes. Unified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kai Chen , Kai Niu , Jia-Ru Lin

Even though polar codes were adopted in the latest 5G cellular standard, they still have the fundamental problem of high decoding latency. Aiming at solving this problem, a fast simplified successive cancellation (Fast-SSC) decoder based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Haotian Zheng , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Zizheng Cao , Ton Koonen

In this letter, we propose parallel SC (Successive Cancellation) decoder and parallel SC-List decoder for polar codes. The parallel decoder is composed of M=2^m(m>=1) component decoders working in parallel and each component decoder decodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Bin Li , Hui Shen , David Tse

Targeting high-throughput and low-power communications, we implement two successive cancellation (SC) decoders for polar codes. With $16nm$ ASIC technology, the area efficiency and energy efficiency are $4Tbps/mm^2$ and $0.63pJ/bit$,…

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

Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding is an algorithm that provides very good error-correction performance for polar codes. However, its hardware implementation requires a large amount of memory, mainly to store intermediate results.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

A method for efficiently successive cancellation (SC) decoding of polar codes with high-dimensional linear binary kernels (HDLBK) is presented and analyzed. We devise a $l$-expressions method which can obtain simplified recursive formulas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Zhiliang Huang , Shiyi Zhang , Feiyan Zhang , Chunjiang Duanmu , Ming Chen

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding enables polar codes and their generalizations to deliver satisfactory performance in finite-length scenarios but it comes with high latency and complexity. To reduce latency, a partitioned SCL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented, addressing various application requirements: from…

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

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

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 provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. This assumes infinite precision arithmetic. Given the successive nature of the decoding algorithm, one might worry about the sensitivity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke

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

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

Polar codes, discovered by Ar{\i}kan, are the first error-correcting codes with an explicit construction to provably achieve channel capacity, asymptotically. However, their error-correction performance at finite lengths tends to be lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Alexandre J. Raymond , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes, as the first provable capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, have received much attention in recent years. However, the decoding performance of polar codes with traditional successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Pascal Giard , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Gabi Sarkis , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Successive cancellation (SC) process is an essential component of various decoding algorithms used for polar codes and their variants. Rewinding this process seems trivial if we have access to all intermediate log-likelihood ratios (LLRs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mohammad Rowshan , Emanuele Viterbo