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We survey the known list decoding algorithms for polar codes and compare their complexity. Index terms: Polar codes; Reed-Muller codes; successive cancellation decoding.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Ilya Dumer

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

A latest coding scheme named polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes is shown to approach the dispersion bound for the code (128,64) under list decoding. However, to achieve the near-bound performance, the list size of list decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hongfei Zhu , Zhiwei Cao , Yuping Zhao , Dou Li , Yanjun Yang

Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

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

In this paper, we investigate a coupled polar code architecture that supports both local and global decoding. This local-global construction is motivated by practical applications in data storage and transmission where reduced-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Ziyuan Zhu , Wei Wu , Paul H. Siegel

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

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

Polar codes, as the first provable capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, have received much attention in recent years. However, the decoding performance of polar codes with traditional successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

This paper focuses on low complexity successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. In particular, using the fact that splitting may be unnecessary when the reliability of decoding the unfrozen bit is sufficiently high, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Liang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Caijun Zhong , H. Vincent Poor

While long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels when decoded by a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm, the error performance of the SC algorithm is inferior for polar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

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

This paper presents a hardware architecture of fast simplified successive cancellation (fast-SSC) algorithm for polar codes, which significantly reduces the decoding latency and dramatically increases the throughput. Algorithmically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Tiben Che , Jingwei Xu , Gwan Choi

A list decoding scheme for universal polar codes is presented. Our scheme applies to the universal polar codes first introduced by Sasoglu and Wang, and generalized to processes with memory by the authors. These codes are based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

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

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

The recently proposed SCLF decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SCL decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In this paper, partitioned polar codes tailored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Pascal Giard

Conventional decoding algorithms for polar codes strive to balance achievable performance and computational complexity in classical computing. While maximum likelihood (ML) decoding guarantees optimal performance, its NP-hard nature makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shintaro Fujiwara , Naoki Ishikawa

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

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