---
_id: '6750'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Polar codes have gained extensive attention during the past few years and
recently they have been selected for the next generation of wireless communications
standards (5G). Successive-cancellation-based (SC-based) decoders, such as SC
list (SCL) and SC flip (SCF), provide a reasonable error performance for polar
codes at the cost of low decoding speed. Fast SC-based decoders, such as Fast-SSC,
Fast-SSCL, and Fast-SSCF, identify the special constituent codes in a polar code
graph off-line, produce a list of operations, store the list in memory, and feed
the list to the decoder to decode the constituent codes in order efficiently,
thus increasing the decoding speed. However, the list of operations is dependent
on the code rate and as the rate changes, a new list is produced, making fast
SC-based decoders not rate-flexible. In this paper, we propose a completely rate-flexible
fast SC-based decoder by creating the list of operations directly in hardware,
with low implementation complexity. We further propose a hardware architecture
implementing the proposed method and show that the area occupation of the rate-flexible
fast SC-based decoder in this paper is only 38% of the total area of the memory-based
base-line decoder when 5G code rates are supported. '
article_number: '8854897'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Seyyed Ali
full_name: Hashemi, Seyyed Ali
last_name: Hashemi
- first_name: Carlo
full_name: Condo, Carlo
last_name: Condo
- first_name: Marco
full_name: Mondelli, Marco
id: 27EB676C-8706-11E9-9510-7717E6697425
last_name: Mondelli
orcid: 0000-0002-3242-7020
- first_name: Warren J
full_name: Gross, Warren J
last_name: Gross
citation:
ama: Hashemi SA, Condo C, Mondelli M, Gross WJ. Rate-flexible fast polar decoders.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 2019;67(22). doi:10.1109/TSP.2019.2944738
apa: Hashemi, S. A., Condo, C., Mondelli, M., & Gross, W. J. (2019). Rate-flexible
fast polar decoders. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2019.2944738
chicago: Hashemi, Seyyed Ali, Carlo Condo, Marco Mondelli, and Warren J Gross. “Rate-Flexible
Fast Polar Decoders.” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. IEEE, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2019.2944738.
ieee: S. A. Hashemi, C. Condo, M. Mondelli, and W. J. Gross, “Rate-flexible fast
polar decoders,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 22.
IEEE, 2019.
ista: Hashemi SA, Condo C, Mondelli M, Gross WJ. 2019. Rate-flexible fast polar
decoders. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 67(22), 8854897.
mla: Hashemi, Seyyed Ali, et al. “Rate-Flexible Fast Polar Decoders.” IEEE Transactions
on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 22, 8854897, IEEE, 2019, doi:10.1109/TSP.2019.2944738.
short: S.A. Hashemi, C. Condo, M. Mondelli, W.J. Gross, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing 67 (2019).
date_created: 2019-07-31T09:51:14Z
date_published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:08:51Z
day: '15'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/TSP.2019.2944738
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1903.09203'
intvolume: ' 67'
issue: '22'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09203
month: '11'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
publication: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
publication_identifier:
issn:
- 1053587X
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Rate-flexible fast polar decoders
type: journal_article
user_id: D865714E-FA4E-11E9-B85B-F5C5E5697425
volume: 67
year: '2019'
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