Subcode Ensemble Decoding of Polar Codes

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Autori principali: Lulei, Henning, Mandelbaum, Jonathan, Rübenacke, Marvin, Jäkel, Holger, Brink, Stephan ten, Schmalen, Laurent
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author Lulei, Henning
Mandelbaum, Jonathan
Rübenacke, Marvin
Jäkel, Holger
Brink, Stephan ten
Schmalen, Laurent
author_facet Lulei, Henning
Mandelbaum, Jonathan
Rübenacke, Marvin
Jäkel, Holger
Brink, Stephan ten
Schmalen, Laurent
contents In the short block length regime, pre-transformed polar codes together with successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding possess excellent error correction capabilities. However, in practice, the list size is limited due to the suboptimal scaling of the required area in hardware implementations. Automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) can improve performance for a fixed list size by running multiple parallel SCL decodings on permuted received words, yielding a list of estimates from which the final estimate is selected. Yet, AED is limited to appropriately designed polar codes. Subcode ensemble decoding (ScED) was recently proposed for low-density parity-check codes and does not impose such design constraints. It uses multiple decodings in different subcodes, ensuring that the selected subcodes jointly cover the original code. We extend ScED to polar codes by expressing polar subcodes through suitable pre-transformations (PTs). To this end, we describe a framework classifying pre-transformations for pre-transformed polar codes based on their role in encoding and decoding. Within this framework, we propose a new type of PT enabling ScED for polar codes, analyze its properties, and discuss how to construct an efficient ensemble.
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spellingShingle Subcode Ensemble Decoding of Polar Codes
Lulei, Henning
Mandelbaum, Jonathan
Rübenacke, Marvin
Jäkel, Holger
Brink, Stephan ten
Schmalen, Laurent
Information Theory
In the short block length regime, pre-transformed polar codes together with successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding possess excellent error correction capabilities. However, in practice, the list size is limited due to the suboptimal scaling of the required area in hardware implementations. Automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) can improve performance for a fixed list size by running multiple parallel SCL decodings on permuted received words, yielding a list of estimates from which the final estimate is selected. Yet, AED is limited to appropriately designed polar codes. Subcode ensemble decoding (ScED) was recently proposed for low-density parity-check codes and does not impose such design constraints. It uses multiple decodings in different subcodes, ensuring that the selected subcodes jointly cover the original code. We extend ScED to polar codes by expressing polar subcodes through suitable pre-transformations (PTs). To this end, we describe a framework classifying pre-transformations for pre-transformed polar codes based on their role in encoding and decoding. Within this framework, we propose a new type of PT enabling ScED for polar codes, analyze its properties, and discuss how to construct an efficient ensemble.
title Subcode Ensemble Decoding of Polar Codes
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17511