Journal of Xidian University ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 58-65.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2020.06.009

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Study on belief propagation list decoding of concatenated polar codes with high throughput

ZHOU Shenyang1(),BAI Baoming1,REN Zhaofeng1,ZHU Min1,LI Binghao1,TANG Ruibo2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University,Xi’an 710071, China
    2. The 7th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Guangzhou 510310, China
  • Received:2020-07-01 Online:2020-12-20 Published:2021-01-06

Abstract:

Aiming for the requirements of high throughput for future mobile communication, this paper studies the high throughput and high reliable Belief Propagation List (BPL) decoding algorithm for improving the error-correction performance of Polar codes. The Impact of different code construction methods for Polar codes on the performance of the BPL decoding algorithm, together with the decoding convergence, is first investigated. Then, the BPL algorithm is applied to the concatenated LDPC-Polar codes, where a majority-logic based criterion is proposed to replace the out-of-work minimum Euclidean distance path pruning criterion. This new method effectively improves the performance of parallel decoding algorithms for LDPC-Polar concatenated codes. Simulation results show that, for the Polar code of length N=1024 and code rate R=1/2, the proposed decoding algorithm has about 1~1.5 dB performance improvement at the block-error-rate of 10-3 compared with the conventional BP decoding of Polar and LDPC-Polar codes.

Key words: polar codes, LDPC codes, parallel decoding

CLC Number: 

  • TN911.23