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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Short packets make channel learning expensive. In pilot-aided transmission (PAT), a non-negligible fraction of the packet is consumed by pilots, creating a direct pre-log loss and tightening the reliability margin needed for ultra-reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Geon Choi , Namyoon Lee

A novel construction of polar codes with dynamic frozen symbols is proposed. The proposed codes are subcodes of extended BCH codes, which ensure sufficiently high minimum distance. Furthermore, a decoding algorithm is proposed, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Peter Trifonov , Vera Miloslavskaya

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuqing Ren , Leyu Zhang , Ludovic Damien Blanc , Yifei Shen , Xinwei Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

Polar codes can theoretically achieve very competitive Frame Error Rates. In practice, their performance may depend on the chosen decoding procedure, as well as other parameters of the communication system they are deployed upon. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mathieu Léonardon , Vincent Gripon

We explore the relationship between polar and RM codes and we describe a coding scheme which improves upon the performance of the standard polar code at practical block lengths. Our starting point is the experimental observation that RM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

We investigate the use of modern code-agnostic decoders to convert CA-SCL from an incomplete decoder to a complete one. When CA-SCL fails to identify a codeword that passes the CRC check, we apply a code-agnostic decoder that identifies a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jiewei Feng , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

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 proposes an enhanced list-aided successive cancellation stack (ELSCS) decoding algorithm with adjustable decoding complexity. In addition, a logarithmic likelihood ratio (LLR)-threshold based path extension scheme is designed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Haotian Zheng , Bin Chen , Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Zizheng Cao , Ton Koonen

We present a rate-compatible polar coding scheme that achieves the capacity of any family of channels. Our solution generalizes the previous results [1], [2] that provide capacity-achieving rate-compatible polar codes for a degraded family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Ivana Marić , Dennis Hui , Song-Nam Hong

Polar code is a breakthrough in coding theory. Using list successive cancellation decoding with large list size L, polar codes can achieve excellent error correction performance. The L partial decoded vectors are stored in the path memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

We improve the method in \cite{Seidl:10} for increasing the finite-lengh performance of polar codes by protecting specific, less reliable symbols with simple outer repetition codes. Decoding of the scheme integrates easily in the known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Mathis Seidl , Johannes B. Huber

The construction of polar codes for channels other than BECs requires sorting of all bit channels and then selecting the best $K$ of them for a block length $N=2^n$. In this paper, two types of partial orders (PO) of polar codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Wei Wang , Liping Li

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Andreas Zunker , Marvin Geiselhart , Lucas Johannsen , Claus Kestel , Stephan ten Brink , Timo Vogt , Norbert Wehn

To extend the applications of polar codes within next-generation wireless communication systems, it is essential to incorporate support for Incremental Redundancy (IR) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) schemes. For very high-throughput…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Marwan Jalaleddine , Mohamad Ali Jarkas , Jiajie Li , Warren J. Gross

This paper presents novel techniques for improving the error correction performance and reducing the complexity of coarsely quantized 5G-LDPC decoders. The proposed decoder design supports arbitrary message-passing schedules on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Philipp Mohr , Gerhard Bauch

Ultra-reliable low-latency vehicular communications (URLLC) require sufficient physical-layer (PHY) compute headroom at the network edge, where roadside units (RSUs) and compact next-generation base stations (gNBs) must meet strict timing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ryan Barker , Julia Boone , Tolunay Seyfi , Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh , Fatemeh Afghah , Joseph Boccuzzi

The transformative enhancements of fifth-generation (5G) mobile devices bring about new challenges to achieve better uplink (UL) performance. Particularly, in codebook-based transmission, the wide-band (WB) precoding and the legacy UL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Liu Cao , Yahia Shabara , Parisa Cheraghi

We study how to design edge server placement and server scheduling policies under workload uncertainty for 5G networks. We introduce a new metric called resource pooling factor to handle unexpected workload bursts. Maximizing this metric…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Shizhen Zhao , Xiao Zhang , Peirui Cao , Xinbing Wang

We propose a unitary precoding scheme, namely polar-precoding, to improve the performance of polar-coded MIMO systems. In contrast to the traditional design of MIMO precoding criteria, the proposed polar-precoding scheme relies on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jinnan Piao , Kai Niu , Jincheng Dai , Lajos Hanzo