65 research outputs found
Source Polarization
The notion of source polarization is introduced and investigated. This
complements the earlier work on channel polarization. An application to
Slepian-Wolf coding is also considered. The paper is restricted to the case of
binary alphabets. Extension of results to non-binary alphabets is discussed
briefly.Comment: To be presented at the IEEE 2010 International Symposium on
Information Theory
A Novel Interleaving Scheme for Polar Codes
It's known that the bit errors of polar codes with successive cancellation
(SC) decoding are coupled. We call the coupled information bits the correlated
bits. In this paper, concatenation schemes are studied for polar codes (as
inner codes) and LDPC codes (as outer codes). In a conventional concatenation
scheme, to achieve a better BER performance, one can divide all bits in a
LDPC block into polar blocks to completely de-correlate the possible
coupled errors. In this paper, we propose a novel interleaving scheme between a
LDPC code and a polar code which breaks the correlation of the errors among the
correlated bits. This interleaving scheme still keeps the simple SC decoding of
polar codes while achieves a comparable BER performance at a much smaller delay
compared with a -block delay scheme
On the Decoding of Polar Codes on Permuted Factor Graphs
Polar codes are a channel coding scheme for the next generation of wireless
communications standard (5G). The belief propagation (BP) decoder allows for
parallel decoding of polar codes, making it suitable for high throughput
applications. However, the error-correction performance of polar codes under BP
decoding is far from the requirements of 5G. It has been shown that the
error-correction performance of BP can be improved if the decoding is performed
on multiple permuted factor graphs of polar codes. However, a different BP
decoding scheduling is required for each factor graph permutation which results
in the design of a different decoder for each permutation. Moreover, the
selection of the different factor graph permutations is at random, which
prevents the decoder to achieve a desirable error-correction performance with a
small number of permutations. In this paper, we first show that the
permutations on the factor graph can be mapped into suitable permutations on
the codeword positions. As a result, we can make use of a single decoder for
all the permutations. In addition, we introduce a method to construct a set of
predetermined permutations which can provide the correct codeword if the
decoding fails on the original permutation. We show that for the 5G polar code
of length , the error-correction performance of the proposed decoder is
more than dB better than that of the BP decoder with the same number of
random permutations at the frame error rate of
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