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Polar codes are the first error-correcting code proven to achieve channel capacity based on infinite code length. The Successive Cancellation List Flip (SCLF) decoding algorithm was proposed by flipping an erroneous bit during the next…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Fu-Siang Liang , Shan Lu , Yeong-Luh Ueng

In this paper, we first indicate that the block error event of polar codes under successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding is composed of path loss (PL) error event and path selection (PS) error event, where the PL error event is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jinnan Piao , Dong Li , Xueting Yu , Zhibo Li , Ming Yang , Jindi Liu , Peng Zeng

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more…

This work presents a fast successive-cancellation list flip (Fast-SCLF) decoding algorithm for polar codes that addresses the high latency issue associated with the successive-cancellation list flip (SCLF) decoding algorithm. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Nghia Doan , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

We describe a successive-cancellation \emph{list} decoder for polar codes, which is a generalization of the classic successive-cancellation decoder of Ar{\i}kan. In the proposed list decoder, up to $L$ decoding paths are considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy

In this letter, we propose an adaptive SC (Successive Cancellation)-List decoder for polar codes with CRC. This adaptive SC-List decoder iteratively increases the list size until the decoder outputs contain at least one survival path which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Bin Li , Hui Shen , David Tse

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

As the first error correction codes provably achieving the symmetric capacity of binary-input discrete memory-less channels (B-DMCs), polar codes have been recently chosen by 3GPP for eMBB control channel. Among existing algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Huayi Zhou , Xiao Liang , Liping Li , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lucas Johannsen , Claus Kestel , Marvin Geiselhart , Timo Vogt , Stephan ten Brink , Norbert Wehn

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Carlo Condo

A successive cancellation (SC) decoder with inactivations is proposed as an efficient implementation of SC list (SCL) decoding over the binary erasure channel. The proposed decoder assigns a dummy variable to an information bit whenever it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Joachim Neu , Henry D. Pfister

Polar codes are the first class of structured channel codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of binary channels with efficient encoding and decoding. In 2019, Arikan proposed a new polar coding scheme referred to as polarization-adjusted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hamid Saber , Homayoon Hatami , Jung Hyun Bae

Permutation decoding gained recent interest as it can exploit the symmetries of a code in a parallel fashion. Moreover, it has been shown that by viewing permuted polar codes as polar subcodes, the set of usable permutations in permutation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Marvin Geiselhart , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

A successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder with limited list size for polar codes can not be analyzed as a successive cancellation (SC) decoder, nor as a maximum likelihood (ML) decoder, due to the complicated decoding errors caused by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Daiming Qu , Tao Jiang

In this paper, we introduce a novel class of pre-transformed polar codes, termed as deep polar codes. We first present a deep polar encoder that harnesses a series of multi-layered polar transformations with varying sizes. Our approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Geon Choi , Namyoon Lee

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

In this paper we propose an enhanced soft cancellation (SCAN) decoder for polar codes based on decoding stages permutation. The proposed soft cancellation list (SCANL) decoder runs $L$ independent SCAN decoders, each one relying on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Charles Pillet , Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio

In successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, the tree pruning operation retains the L best paths with respect to metric at every decoding step. However, the correct path might be among the L worst paths due to imposed penalties. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Mohammad Rowshan , Emanuele Viterbo

We propose a belief propagation list (BPL) decoder with comparable performance to the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder of polar codes, which already achieves the maximum likelihood (ML) bound of polar codes for sufficiently large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Polar codes are widely considered as one of the most exciting recent discoveries in channel coding. For short to moderate block lengths, their error-correction performance under list decoding can outperform that of other modern…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Pascal Giard , Andreas Burg