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Threshold-Based Fast Successive-Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes
Fast SC decoding overcomes the latency caused by the serial nature of the SC
decoding by identifying new nodes in the upper levels of the SC decoding tree
and implementing their fast parallel decoders. In this work, we first present a
novel sequence repetition node corresponding to a particular class of bit
sequences. Most existing special node types are special cases of the proposed
sequence repetition node. Then, a fast parallel decoder is proposed for this
class of node. To further speed up the decoding process of general nodes
outside this class, a threshold-based hard-decision-aided scheme is introduced.
The threshold value that guarantees a given error-correction performance in the
proposed scheme is derived theoretically. Analysis and hardware implementation
results on a polar code of length with code rates , , and
show that our proposed algorithm reduces the required clock cycles by up
to , and leads to a improvement in the maximum operating frequency
compared to state-of-the-art decoders without tangibly altering the
error-correction performance. In addition, using the proposed threshold-based
hard-decision-aided scheme, the decoding latency can be further reduced by
at ~dB.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, submitted to IEEE Transactions on
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