Abstract
Polar coding is known as the first provably capacity-achieving coding scheme under low-complexity suboptimal successive cancelation decoding (SCD). The large error-correction capability of finite-length polar codes is mostly achieved with relatively long codes. SCD is the conventional decoder for polar codes and exhibits a quasi-linear complexity in terms of the code length. Practical decoder schemes with low latency are important for high-speed polar coding applications. In this letter, we propose a nonbinary multiple folded SCD scheme to reduce the decoding latency of standard binary polar codes. Multiple foldings were first proposed to improve the efficiency of folded tree maximum-likelihood decoder for Kronecker product-based codes. By successively applying the folding operation κ times on the SCD, for a code length N, the latency is reduced from 2N - 1 to (N/2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">κ-1</sup> ) - 1 time slots, assuming full parallelization. We show that multiple folded SCD can be effectively implemented for up to κ = 3 foldings due to memory limitations. This decoder achieves exactly the same performance of the original SCD with significantly reduced latency.
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