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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…
Polar codes have received growing attention in the past decade and have been selected as the coding scheme for the control channel in the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. However, the conventional polar codes have only…
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…
Polar codes have attracted a lot of attention during past few years and have been adopted as a coding scheme for 5G standard. Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoder provides high level error-correction performance for polar codes, but…
The recently proposed SCLF decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SCL decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In this paper, partitioned polar codes tailored…
In this work, we present a family of architectures for polar decoders using a reduced-complexity successive-cancellation decoding algorithm that employs unrolling to achieve extremely high throughput values while retaining moderate…
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…
This work presents an efficient ASIC implementation of successive cancellation (SC) decoder for polar codes. SC is a low-complexity depth-first search decoding algorithm, favorable for beyond-5G applications that require extremely high…
Polar codes are linear block codes that can achieve channel capacity at infinite code length. Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding relies on a set of parallel decoders; it yields good error-correction performance at finite code…
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…
Polar codes are a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so with low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and they…
This paper presents a hardware architecture of fast simplified successive cancellation (fast-SSC) algorithm for polar codes, which significantly reduces the decoding latency and dramatically increases the throughput. Algorithmically,…
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…
Concatenating the state-of-the-art codes at moderate rates with repetition codes has emerged as a practical solution deployed in various standards for ultra-low-power devices such as in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, we…
Blind recognition of polar codes remains challenging in non-cooperative scenarios, particularly for information-set recognition with known code length. Existing methods mainly rely on threshold decisions determined by the generator-matrix…
The joint transmission scheme of polar codes and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) has been regarded as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. However, most of the existing polar-coded SCMA (PC-SCMA) systems…
Fast SC decoding overcomes the latency caused by the serial nature of the SC decoding by identifying new nodes in the upper levels of the SC decoding tree and implementing their fast parallel decoders. In this work, we first present a novel…
In this paper, we propose a method to obtain the optimal metric function at each depth of the polarization tree through a process we call polarization of the metric function. This polarization process generates an optimal metric at…
Due to the sequential nature of the successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm, the decoding of polar codes suffers from significant decoding latencies. Fast SC decoding is able to speed up the SC decoding process, by implementing parallel…
Due to their capacity-achieving property, polar codes have become one of the most attractive channel codes. To date, the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is the primary approach that can guarantee outstanding…