Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

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Abstract: In the short block length regime, pre-transformed polar codes together with successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding possess excellent error correction ...

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