High-Speed Decoders for Polar Codes

• Main Authors: Giard, Pascal (Author), Thibeault, Claude (Author), Gross, Warren J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Coding theory.; Electrical engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Computer Science.; Coding and Information Theory.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Circuits and Systems.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

A new class of provably capacity achieving error-correction codes, polar codes are suitable for many problems, such as lossless and lossy source coding, problems with side information, multiple access channel, etc. The first comprehensive book on the implementation of decoders for polar codes, the a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Polar Codes
• 2 Fast Low-Complexity Hardware Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes
• 3 Low-Latency Software Polar Decoders
• 4 Unrolled Hardware Architectures for Polar Decoders
• 5 Multi-mode Unrolled Polar Decoding
• 6 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• Index.