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Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented, addressing various application requirements: from…

An implementation-efficient finite alphabet decoder for polar codes relying on coarsely quantized messages and low-complexity operations is proposed. Typically, finite alphabet decoding performs concatenated compression operations on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Philipp Mohr , Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Gerhard Bauch

In this work, we propose a decoding method of Golay codes from the perspective of Polarization Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) codes. By invoking Forney's cubing construction of Golay codes and their generators $G^*(8,7)/(8,4)$, we found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yujun Ji , Ling Liu , Shanxiang Lyu , Chao Chen , Tao Dai , Baoming Bai

An efficient implementation of min-sum SC/list decoding of convolutional polar codes is proposed. The complexity of the proposed implementation of SC decoding is more than two times smaller than the straightforward implementation. Moreover,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ruslan Morozov

Polar codes are a new class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexity. Their low-complexity decoding algorithms rendering them attractive for use in software-defined radio applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Pascal Giard , Gabi Sarkis , Camille Leroux , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Binary linear block codes (BLBCs) are essential to modern communication, but their diverse structures often require tailor-made decoders, increasing complexity. This work introduces enhanced polar decoding ($\mathsf{PD}^+$), a universal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chien-Ying Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Shin-Lin Shieh , Po-Ning Chen

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

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

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm to count the low-weight codewords of punctured and shortened pure and pre-transformed polar codes. The method first evaluates the weight properties of punctured/shortened polar cosets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Malek Ellouze , Romain Tajan , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jégo , Charly Poulliat

Two concatenated coding schemes incorporating algebraic Reed-Solomon (RS) codes and polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are proposed. Simulation results show that at a bit error rate of $10^{-5}$, a concatenated scheme using RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Mohsen Moradi , Amir Mozammel

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

Polar codes have promising error-correction capabilities. Yet, decoding polar codes is often challenging, particularly with large blocks, with recently proposed decoders based on list-decoding or neural-decoding. The former applies multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tomer Raviv , Alon Goldman , Ofek Vayner , Yair Be'ery , Nir Shlezinger

A method for construction of polar subcodes is presented, which aims on minimization of the number of low-weight codewords in the obtained codes, as well as on improved performance under list or sequential decoding. Simulation results are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Peter Trifonov , Grigorii Trofimiuk

Benefiting from performance advantages under short code lengths, polar codes are well-suited for certain scenarios, such as the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications that require high reliability and low power. Existing list flip…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yansong Lv , Jingxin Dai , Yuhuan Wang , Hang Yin , Zhanxin Yang

Motivated by the need to communicate short control messages in 5G and beyond, this paper carefully designs codes for cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided list decoding of tail-biting convolutional codes (TBCCs) and polar codes. Both codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jacob King , Hanwen Yao , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel

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

Successive cancellation (SC) process is an essential component of various decoding algorithms used for polar codes and their variants. Rewinding this process seems trivial if we have access to all intermediate log-likelihood ratios (LLRs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mohammad Rowshan , Emanuele Viterbo

We describe a novel approach to interpret a polar code as a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-like code with an underlying sparse decoding graph. This sparse graph is based on the encoding factor graph of polar codes and is suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Sebastian Cammerer , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , 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