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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changwei Tu , Yang Liu , Xianzhao Feng , Kai Niu

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 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

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

Polar codes are of great interests because they provably achieve the capacity of both discrete and continuous memoryless channels while having an explicit construction. Most existing decoding algorithms of polar codes are based on bit-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding is an algorithm that provides very good error-correction performance for polar codes. However, its hardware implementation requires a large amount of memory, mainly to store intermediate results.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Liang Ma , Hang Li , Yuejun Wei

This paper proposes a generalization of the recently introduced Successive Cancellation Flip (SCFlip) decoding of polar codes, characterized by a number of extra decoding attempts, where one or several positions are flipped from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Ludovic Chandesris , Valentin Savin , David Declercq

Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes has been adopted for 5G. However, the performance is not very satisfactory with moderate code length. Heuristic or deep-learning-aided (DL-aided) flip algorithms have been developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yaoyu Tao , Zhengya Zhang

Deep polar codes, employing multi-layered polar kernel pre-transforms in series, are recently introduced variants of pre-transformed polar codes. These codes have demonstrated the ability to reduce the number of minimum weight codewords,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Geon Choi , Namyoon Lee

Long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) decoding algorithm. But for polar codes with short and moderate code length, the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

Polar codes have attracted much attention in the past decade due to their capacity-achieving performance. The higher decoding capacity is required for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Although the cyclic redundancy check (CRC)- assisted successive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Chun-Hsiang Chen , Chieh-Fang Teng , An-Yeu Wu

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

The decoding performance of polar codes strongly depends on the decoding algorithm used, while also the decoder throughput and its latency mainly depend on the decoding algorithm. In this work, we implement the powerful successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Sebastian Cammerer , Benedikt Leible , Matthias Stahl , Jakob Hoydis , Stephan ten Brink

Research on polar codes has been constantly gaining attention over the last decade, by academia and industry alike, thanks to their capacity-achieving error-correction performance and low-complexity decoding algorithms. Recently, they have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

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

A heuristic construction of polar codes for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding with a given list size is proposed to balance the trade-off between performance measured in frame error rate (FER) and decoding complexity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Peihong Yuan , Tobias Prinz , Georg Böcherer , Onurcan İşcan , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kai Chen , Kai Niu , Jia-Ru Lin

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

The successive cancellation list decoder (SCL) is an efficient decoder for classical polar codes with low decoding error, approximating the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for small list sizes. Here we adapt the SCL to the task of decoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Joseph M. Renes