Journal of Xidian University ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 72-77.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2020.06.011

• Special Issue: Information Transmission and Access Technologies for B5G/6G • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Method for designing CRC-Polar codes to improve minimum distances

SONG Jiawei1(),ZHENG Huijuan2,TONG Sheng1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
    2. School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications,Xi’an 710121,China
  • Received:2020-07-01 Online:2020-12-20 Published:2021-01-06

Abstract:

In view of the excellent error correction performance of short concatenated CRC-Polar codes, the 5G standard has adopted concatenated CRC-Polar codes as the channel coding scheme for control channels in the eMBB scenario. This paper examines the optimal design of concatenated CRC-Polar codes, and aims to increase the minimum distance of concatenated CRC-Polar codes in order to improve their error correction performance at the high SNR region. To this end, this paper considers both the optimal design of the CRC code and the selection of information bit positions on the minimum distance behaviors of concatenated codes, and proposes a new design method for concatenated CRC-Polar codes. The proposed scheme can effectively reduce the number of codewords with a minimum Hamming weight, and even can increase the minimum distances of concatenated CRC-Polar codes for some code parameters. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed design method.

Key words: polar code, cyclic redundancy check, minimum distance

CLC Number: 

  • TN911.22