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In addition to a proposed codeword, error correction decoders that provide blockwise soft output (SO) return an estimate of the likelihood that the decoding is correct. Following Forney, such estimates are traditionally only possible for…
We propose a reduced complexity approach to pattern-based soft decoding of block codes. We start from the ORDEPT decoding algorithm which tests a list of partial error patterns organized in the order of their likelihood and attempts to…
We introduce a generalized low-density parity-check decoding framework for quantum Tanner codes utilizing soft-output guessing random additive noise decoding (SOGRAND). By soft-output decoding entire component codes, we mitigate trapping…
Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a code-agnostic decoding technique for short-length and high-rate channel codes. GRAND tries to guess the channel noise by generating test error patterns (TEPs), and the sequence of the…
This paper is concerned with a search-number-reduced guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) algorithm for linear block codes, called partially constrained GRAND (PC-GRAND). In contrast to the original GRAND, which guesses error…
The design and implementation of error correcting codes has long been informed by two fundamental results: Shannon's 1948 capacity theorem, which established that long codes use noisy channels most efficiently; and Berlekamp, McEliece, and…
To facilitate applications in IoT, 5G, and beyond, there is an engineering need to enable high-rate, low-latency communications. Errors in physical channels typically arrive in clumps, but most decoders are designed assuming that channels…
GRAND features both soft-input and hard-input variants that are well suited to efficient hardware implementations that can be characterized with achievable average and worst-case decoding latency. This paper introduces step-GRAND, a…
Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which introduce undesirable…
For spectral efficiency, higher order modulation symbols confer information on more than one bit. As soft detection forward error correction decoders assume the availability of information at binary granularity, however, soft demappers are…
Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentional or unintentional). To…
We establish that during the execution of any Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm, an interpretable, useful measure of decoding confidence can be evaluated. This measure takes the form of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR)…
Guessing Codeword Decoding (GCD) is a recently proposed soft-input forward error correction decoder for arbitrary binary linear codes. Inspired by recent proposals that leverage binary linear codebook structure to reduce the number of…
We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that enhances decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise without joint decoding. The method can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In the…
Quantum error correction codes (QECCs) play a central role in both quantum communications and quantum computation. Practical quantum error correction codes, such as stabilizer codes, are generally structured to suit a specific use, and…
We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that substantially enhances decoding performance of orthogonal channels subject to correlated noise without the need for joint encoding or decoding. The method can be used with any combination of…
Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding of forward error correction codes is known to be optimally accurate, but is not used in practice as it proves too challenging to efficiently implement. Here we introduce a ML decoder called SGRAND, which is…
This paper considers a transmitter, which uses random linear coding (RLC) to encode data packets. The generated coded packets are broadcast to one or more receivers. A receiver can recover the data packets if it gathers a sufficient number…
In this paper, we distinguish two guessing algorithms for decoding binary linear codes. One is the guessing noise decoding (GND) algorithm, and the other is the guessing codeword decoding (GCD) algorithm. We prove that the GCD is a maximum…
The order statistics based list decoding techniques for linear binary block codes of small to medium block length are investigated. The construction of the list of the test error patterns is considered. The original order statistics…