Related papers: CRC-Aided High-Rate Convolutional Codes With Short…
This paper shows that, with high probability, randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes over fields of polynomial size achieve the list decoding capacity. More specifically, we prove that for any $\epsilon>0$ and $R\in (0,1)$, with high…
Row-merged polar codes are a family of pre-transformed polar codes (PTPCs) with little precoding overhead. Providing an improved distance spectrum over plain polar codes, they are capable to perform close to the finite-length capacity…
Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are a new family of linear block codes that can perform close to the theoretical bounds in the short block-length regime. These codes combine polar coding and convolutional coding. In this…
Due to the ability to provide superior error-correction performance, the successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm is widely regarded as one of the most promising decoding algorithms for polar codes with short-to-moderate code lengths.…
Low decoding latency and complexity are two important requirements of channel codes used in many applications, like machine-to-machine communications. In this paper, we show how these requirements can be fulfilled by using some special…
Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided polar codes are capable of achieving better performance than low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes under the successive cancelation list (SCL) decoding scheme. However, the SCL decoding scheme suffers…
Linear Programming (LP) decoding is emerging as an attractive alternative to decode Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. However, the earliest LP decoders proposed for binary and nonbinary LDPC codes are not suitable for use at moderate…
In this paper, we present a construction method of non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes. Our construction method is an extension of Felstroem and Zigangirov construction for non-binary LDPC convolutional codes. The…
Let G be a finite strongly connected aperiodic directed graph in which each edge carries a label from a finite alphabet A. Then G induces a trellis coded quantizer for encoding an alphabet A memoryless source. A source sequence of long…
Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes can approach the theoretical bound for block error rate (BLER) performance at short-to-medium codeword length. PAC codes have excellent BLER performance using Monte Carlo (MC) rate-profiles…
In this paper, we propose an efficient reliability based segmentation-discarding decoding (SDD) algorithm for short block-length codes. A novel segmentation-discarding technique is proposed along with the stopping rule to significantly…
According to some standards for satellite communications, the transmitted stream is divided into transmission units with variable length, for which detecting the termination is particularly relevant. This is the case of space TeleCommands…
Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C : \Sigma^k \to \Sigma^n$ that admit a local decoding algorithm that recovers each individual bit of the message by querying only a few bits from a noisy codeword. An important…
We present novel decoding schemes for hard and soft decision decoding of block codes using the minimal weight codewords of the dual code. The decoding schemes will be described for cyclic codes where polynomials can be used, however, the…
In this work, we address the question of the largest rate of linear subcodes of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, all of whose codewords respect a runlength-limited (RLL) constraint. Our interest is in the $(d,\infty)$-RLL constraint, which mandates…
Two new rate-one full-diversity space-time block codes (STBC) are proposed. They are characterized by the \emph{lowest decoding complexity} among the known rate-one STBC, arising due to the complete separability of the transmitted symbols…
Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes have recently emerged as a promising class of error-correcting codes, achieving near-capacity performance particularly in the short block-length regime. In this paper, we propose an enhanced…
A new class of spatially-coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), dubbed generalized spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (GSC-PCCs), is introduced. These codes are constructed by applying spatial coupling on parallel concatenated codes…
In this paper, we discuss pre-transformed RM-Polar codes and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) concatenated pre-transformed RM-Polar codes. The simulation results show that the pre-transformed RM-Polar (256, 128+9) code concatenated with 9-bit…
The A* algorithm is a graph search algorithm which has shown good results in terms of computational complexity for Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding of tailbiting convolutional codes. The decoding of tailbiting codes with this algorithm is…