TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-RS Concatenated Polar Codes with Enhanced Interleaving and List Decoding
AU - Jiang, Xiaoming
AU - Wu, Shaohua
AU - Liu, Xijin
AU - Jiao, Jian
AU - Zhang, Qinyu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving channel codes. Despite the splendid performance of long Polar codes, short Polar codes have relatively poor performance compared with other modern channel coding schemes (e.g., Turbo codes and LDPC). In this paper, we explore some practical methods to improve the performance of Polar codes with short to moderate codeword lengths. First, we use Reed Solomon (RS) codes as outer codes. With a specific interleaving strategy, we can concatenate multiple RS codes with one frame of Polar codes. Combining a strategy of allocating unequal RS code rates with the concatenation, different levels of protection are assigned based on the error pattern of successive cancellation list (SCL) decoders. Thus, the finite length performance will certainly be enhanced for this encoding scheme. Meanwhile, the memory size that the original SCL decoding procedure requires is reduced, and the increment of overall decoding complexity is small. Additionally, we propose an intra-frame interleaver to further enhance the performance by dispersing errors. Finally, we designed a list decoding scheme for the proposed multi-RS concatenated Polar codes. Depending on the soft information generated by an SCL decoder, we calculated the reliability of each RS symbol and conducted soft RS decoding. So, the overall performance was enhanced under this joint decoding strategy. Simulation results indicate that the bit error rate (BER) performance of short Polar codes can be well improved.
AB - Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving channel codes. Despite the splendid performance of long Polar codes, short Polar codes have relatively poor performance compared with other modern channel coding schemes (e.g., Turbo codes and LDPC). In this paper, we explore some practical methods to improve the performance of Polar codes with short to moderate codeword lengths. First, we use Reed Solomon (RS) codes as outer codes. With a specific interleaving strategy, we can concatenate multiple RS codes with one frame of Polar codes. Combining a strategy of allocating unequal RS code rates with the concatenation, different levels of protection are assigned based on the error pattern of successive cancellation list (SCL) decoders. Thus, the finite length performance will certainly be enhanced for this encoding scheme. Meanwhile, the memory size that the original SCL decoding procedure requires is reduced, and the increment of overall decoding complexity is small. Additionally, we propose an intra-frame interleaver to further enhance the performance by dispersing errors. Finally, we designed a list decoding scheme for the proposed multi-RS concatenated Polar codes. Depending on the soft information generated by an SCL decoder, we calculated the reliability of each RS symbol and conducted soft RS decoding. So, the overall performance was enhanced under this joint decoding strategy. Simulation results indicate that the bit error rate (BER) performance of short Polar codes can be well improved.
KW - Polar codes
KW - Reed-Solomon codes
KW - SCL decoding
KW - concatenation
KW - interleaver design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85064941539
U2 - 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690943
DO - 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690943
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85064941539
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
BT - 2018 IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 88th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2018
Y2 - 27 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -