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In this paper we deal with polar code automorphisms that are beneficial under low-latency automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding, and we propose polar code designs that have such automorphisms. Successive-cancellation (SC) decoding and thus…
In this paper, we propose an analysis of the automorphism group of polar codes, with the scope of designing codes tailored for automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding. We prove the equivalence between the notion of decreasing monomial codes and…
In this paper, we propose a low-latency decoding solution of shortened polar codes based on their automorphism groups. The automorphism group of shortened polar codes, designed according to two existing shortening patterns, are shown to be…
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…
This paper proposes new polar code design principles for the low-latency automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding. Our proposal permits to design a polar code with the desired automorphism group (if possible) while assuring the decreasing…
Recently, a permutation-based successive cancellation (PSC) decoding framework for polar codes attaches much attention. It decodes several permuted codewords with independent successive cancellation (SC) decoders. Its latency thus can be…
Recently, automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) has drawn research interest as a more computationally efficient alternative to successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. Although AED has demonstrated superior performance for…
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…
Automorphism Ensemble (AE) decoding has recently drawn attention as a possible alternative to list decoding of polar codes. In this letter, we investigate the distribution of Partially-Symmetric Reed-Muller (PS-RM) codes, a family of polar…
Over the past years, Polar codes have arisen as a highly effective class of linear codes, equipped with a decoding algorithm of low computational complexity. This family of codes share a common algebraic formalism with the well-known…
Polar coding solutions demonstrate excellent performance under the list decoding that is challenging to implement in hardware due to the path sorting operations. As a potential solution to this problem, permutation decoding recently became…
In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm to design rate- and length-flexible polar codes. While the algorithm is very general, a particularly appealing use case is the design of codes for automorphism ensemble decoding (AED), a…
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…
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.…
Polar codes have become one of the most favorable capacity achieving error correction codes (ECC) along with their simple encoding method. However, among the very few prior successive cancellation (SC) polar decoder designs, the required…
The automorphism group of a code is the set of permutations of the codeword symbols that map the whole code onto itself. For polar codes, only a part of the automorphism group was known, namely the lower-triangular affine group (LTA), which…
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…
Polar codes have emerged as the most favorable channel codes for their unique capacity-achieving property. To date, numerous works have been reported for efficient design of polar codes decoder. However, these prior efforts focused on…
A new permutation decoding approach for polar codes is presented. The complexity of the algorithm is similar to that of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder, while it can be implemented with the latency of a successive cancellation…
In this paper, a low-complexity approach for the automorphism ensemble decoder (AED) using successive cancellation (SC) as constituent decoders is proposed. The approach sequentially activates sub-decoders and terminates the decoding…