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Due to the sequential nature of the successive-cancellation (SC) algorithm, the decoding of polar codes suffers from significant decoding latencies. Fast SC decoding is able to speed up the SC decoding process, by implementing parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yang Lu , Ming-Min Zhao , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

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

Even though polar codes were adopted in the latest 5G cellular standard, they still have the fundamental problem of high decoding latency. Aiming at solving this problem, a fast simplified successive cancellation (Fast-SSC) decoder based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Haotian Zheng , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Zizheng Cao , Ton Koonen

The interest in polar codes has been increasing significantly since their adoption for use in the 5$^{\rm th}$ generation wireless systems standard. Successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm has low implementation complexity, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

This paper focuses on an improved Gaussian approximation (GA) based construction of polar codes with successive cancellation (SC) decoding over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Arikan has proven that polar codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hideki Ochiai , Patrick Mitran , H. Vincent Poor

DeepPolar codes have recently emerged as a promising approach for channel coding, demonstrating superior bit error rate (BER) performance compared to conventional polar codes. Despite their excellent BER characteristics, these codes exhibit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shubham Srivastava , Adrish Banerjee

Polar codes are able to achieve the capacity of memoryless channels under successive cancellation (SC) decoding. Soft Cancellation (SCAN) is a soft-output decoder based on the SC schedule, useful in iterative decoding and concatenation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Charles Pillet , Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio

In this letter, we propose an adaptive SC (Successive Cancellation)-List decoder for polar codes with CRC. This adaptive SC-List decoder iteratively increases the list size until the decoder outputs contain at least one survival path which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Bin Li , Hui Shen , David Tse

Channel polarization and Polar code are widely considered as major breakthroughs in coding theory because they have shown promising features for future wireless standards. The main drawbacks of Polar code are high-latency in decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Dinh-Dung Le , Thi-Hong Tran , Takashi Nakada , Yasuhiko Nakashima

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

Simulation results illustrating the performance and complexity of the sequential successive cancellation decoding algorithm are presented for the case of polar subcodes with Arikan and large kernels, as well as for extended BCH\ codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Peter Trifonov

A new algorithm for efficient exact maximum likelihood decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC augmented), transmitted over the binary erasure channel, is presented. The algorithm applies a matrix triangulation process on a sparse polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yonatan Urman , David Burshtein

This paper proposes new polar code design principles for the low-latency automorphism ensemble (AE) decoding. Our proposal permits to design a polar code with the desired automorphism group (if possible) while assuring the decreasing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Charles Pillet , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

A framework is proposed that allows for a joint description and optimization of both binary polar coding and $2^m$-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) schemes such as multilevel coding (MLC) and bit-interleaved coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Mathis Seidl , Andreas Schenk , Clemens Stierstorfer , Johannes B. Huber

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

Polar codes with memory (PCM) are proposed in this paper: a pair of consecutive code blocks containing a controlled number of mutual information bits. The shared mutual information bits of the succeeded block can help the failed block to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wenyue Zhou , Qiang Liu , Yifei Shen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Chuan Zhang , Yaohua Xu , Liping Li

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

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 encoding, described by Arikan in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2009, was a milestone for telecommunications. A Polar code distributes information among high and low-capacity channels, showing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Geraldo A. Barbosa