On the latency of multi-level polar coded modulations
Information Theory
2022-06-02 v1 math.IT
Abstract
A commonly assumed drawback of multi-level coding, compared to a bit-interleaved coded modulation, is its high latency: Indeed, the levels must be decoded sequentially. In this paper, we consider polar codes to code each level. We show that the decoding time complexity of the multi-level scheme, using successive-cancellation list decoding for each polar code, is only 1.5 times the one of a single polar code, regardless of the signal-to-noise ratio and the number of levels.
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@article{arxiv.2206.00340,
title = {On the latency of multi-level polar coded modulations},
author = {Vincent Corlay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00340},
year = {2022}
}
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Accepted to the GRETSI