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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

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuqing Ren , Leyu Zhang , Ludovic Damien Blanc , Yifei Shen , Xinwei Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

Polar codes are a class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of practical channels under the low-complexity successive-cancellation flip (SCF) decoding algorithm. However, the SCF decoding algorithm has a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Pascal Giard

This paper presents low-complexity block-based encoding and decoding algorithms for short block length channels. In terms of the precise use-case, we are primarily concerned with the baseline 3GPP Short block transmissions in which payloads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mody Sy , Raymond Knopp

To extend the applications of polar codes within next-generation wireless communication systems, it is essential to incorporate support for Incremental Redundancy (IR) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) schemes. For very high-throughput…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Marwan Jalaleddine , Mohamad Ali Jarkas , Jiajie Li , Warren J. Gross

For polar codes, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm significantly improves finite-length performance compared to SC decoding. SCL-flip decoding can further enhance the performance but the gain diminishes as code length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xianbin Wang , Huazi Zhang , Jiajie Tong , Jun Wang , Wen Tong

The recently-discovered polar codes are seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory; they provably achieve the theoretical capacity of discrete memoryless channels using the low complexity successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Camille Leroux , Alexandre J. Raymond , Gabi Sarkis , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are of great interest since they are the first provably capacity-achieving forward error correction codes. To improve throughput and to reduce decoding latency of polar decoders, maximum likelihood (ML) decoding units are used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Flexibility is one mandatory aspect of channel coding in modern wireless communication systems. Among other things, the channel decoder has to support several code lengths and code rates. This need for flexibility applies to polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Mathieu Léonardon , Adrien Cassagne , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jégo , Louis-Philippe Hamelin , Yvon Savaria

Polar codes are the first class of forward error correction (FEC) codes with a provably capacity-achieving capability. Using list successive cancellation decoding (LSCD) with a large list size, the error correction performance of polar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-ying Tsui , ChongYang Zeng , Jie Jin , Bin Li

Polar codes have gained extensive attention during the past few years and recently they have been selected for the next generation of wireless communications standards (5G). Successive-cancellation-based (SC-based) decoders, such as SC list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Carlo Condo , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiajie Li , Sihui Shen , Warren J. Gross

The recently proposed Successive-Cancellation List Flip (SCLF) decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SC List (SCL) decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Grégoire Domer , Pascal Giard

Polar codes under cyclic redundancy check aided successive cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding can outperform the turbo codes and the LDPC codes when code lengths are configured to be several kilobits. In order to reduce the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Kai Chen , Bin Li , Hui Shen , Jie Jin , David Tse

We introduce an algorithm for approximating the codebook probability that is compatible with all successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding algorithms, including SC list (SCL) decoding. This approximation is based on an auxiliary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

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

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

In this paper we describe a variation of the classical permutation decoding algorithm that can be applied to any affine-invariant code with respect to certain type of information sets. In particular, we can apply it to the family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-13 José Joaquín Bernal , Juan Jacobo Simón

Due to their provably capacity-achieving performance, polar codes have attracted a lot of research interest recently. For a good error-correcting performance, list successive-cancellation decoding (LSCD) with large list size is used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-02 YouZhe Fan , ChenYang Xia , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

Successive cancellation list decoders with flip operations (SCL-Flip) can utilize re-decoding attempts to significantly improve the error-correction performance of polar codes. However, these re-decoding attempts result in extra computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yansong Lv , Hang Yin , Zhanxin Yang , Yuhuan Wang , Jingxin Dai , Jing Huan