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Polar codes have attracted the attention of numerous researchers in the past decade due to their excellent performance. However, their performance at short block lengths under standard successive cancellation decoding is far from desirable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Wei Zhang

We introduce an algorithm for approximating the codebook probability that is compatible with all successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding algorithms, including SC list (SCL) decoding. This approximation is based on an auxiliary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

In the standard polar code construction, the message vector $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{n-1})$ is divided into information bits and frozen bits according to the reliability of each $U_i$ given $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{i-1})$ and all the channel outputs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guodong Li , Min Ye , Sihuang Hu

This paper presents a refined analysis of the block error rate (BLER) of polar codes over symmetric binary-input discrete memoryless channels under successive cancellation (SC) and successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding. A novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hassan Noghrei , Murad Abdullah

The URLLC scenario in the upcoming 6G standard requires low latency and ultra reliable transmission, i.e., error correction towards ML performance. Achieving near-ML performance is very challenging especially for short block lengths. Polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Claus Kestel , Marvin Geiselhart , Lucas Johannsen , Stephan ten Brink , Norbert Wehn

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Pascal Giard , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Gabi Sarkis , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

From the perspective of tree, we design a length-flexible coding scheme. For an arbitrary code length, we first construct a balanced binary tree (BBT) where the root node represents a transmitted codeword, the leaf nodes represent either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

We propose a low complexity list successive cancellation (LCLSC) decoding algorithm to reduce complexity of traditional list successive cancellation (LSC) decoding of polar codes while trying to maintain the LSC decoding performance at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Congzhe Cao , Zesong Fei , Jinhong Yuan , Jingming Kuang

A new permutation decoding approach for polar codes is presented. The complexity of the algorithm is similar to that of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder, while it can be implemented with the latency of a successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

Bit flipping can be used as a postprocessing technique to further improve the performance for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. However, the number of bit-flipping trials could increase the decoding latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wei Zhang , Xiaofu Wu

A modified successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder is proposed for polar-coded probabilistic shaping. The decoder exploits the deterministic encoding rule for shaping bits to rule out candidate code words that the encoder would not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Constantin Runge , Thomas Wiegart , Diego Lentner

This brief introduces a hardware complexity reduction method for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoders. Specifically, we propose to use a sorting scheme so that L paths with smallest path metrics are also sorted according to their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Onur Dizdar

Polar codes can be decoded with the low-complexity successive-cancellation flip (SCF) algorithm. To improve error-correction performance, the dynamic successive-cancellation flip (DSCF) variant was proposed, where the resulting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Ilshat Sagitov , Pascal Giard

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

Polar codes have received increasing attention in the past decade, and have been selected for the next generation of wireless communication standard. Most research on polar codes has focused on codes constructed from a $2\times2$…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Gabriele Coppolino , Carlo Condo , Guido Masera , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are a class of linear error-correction codes that have received a lot of attention due to their ability to achieve channel capacity in an arbitrary binary discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) with low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard

Since its invention, polar code has received a lot of attention because of its capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

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…

Polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving codes for the binary-input discrete memoryless channels (B-DMCs). However, when applied in channels with intersymbol interference (ISI), the codes may perform poorly with BCJR equalization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Runxin Wang , Rongke Liu , Yi Hou

This paper explores list decoding of convolutional and polar codes for short messages such as those found in the 5G physical broadcast channel. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is used to select a codeword from a list of likely codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Jacob King , Alexandra Kwon , Hengjie Yang , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel