Playing with successive cancellation decoding of polar codes
To study polar codes I've started implementing a soft decision decoder using saturating fixed-point operations.
Here some good reads:
- Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Memoryless Channels
by Erdal Arikan - 2009 - On the Rate of Channel Polarization
by Erdal Arikan and Emre Telatar - 2009 - Systematic Polar Coding
by Erdal Arikan - 2011 - Fast Polar Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation
by Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard, Alexander Vardy, Claude Thibeault and Warren J. Gross - 2013 - Flexible and Low-Complexity Encoding and Decoding of Systematic Polar Codes
by Gabi Sarkis, Ido Tal, Pascal Giard, Alexander Vardy, Claude Thibeault and Warren J. Gross - 2015 - A Comparative Study of Polar Code Constructions for the AWGN Channel
by Harish Vangala, Emanuele Viterbo and Yi Hong - 2015 - The Flesh of Polar Codes
by Emre Telatar - ISIT 2017
Comparing various systematic and non-systematic rate-1/2 code lengths
