Threshold-Based Successive-Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

Haotian Zheng, Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Zizheng Cao, A. M.J. Koonen, John Cioffi, Andrea Goldsmith

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Abstract

This paper focuses on fast successive-cancellation (SC) decoding of polar codes. A threshold-based hard-decision-aided scheme is proposed to speed up the decoding process, especially when the communications channel has low noise. In addition, to eliminate the error-correction performance degradation caused by hard decisions, a backtracking strategy is introduced. Simulation results on a polar code of code length 1024 and rate 1 /2 show that, with the help of the proposed scheme, the average decoding latency of existing fast SC decoding algorithms can be reduced by 53% at an \mathrm{E}-{b}/ \mathrm{N}-{0}\,= 5.0 dB with negligible error-correction performance degradation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728150895
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: Jun 7 2020Jun 11 2020

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2020-June
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period6/7/206/11/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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