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High-Speed Decoders for Polar Codes

  • Maintains a tutorial nature clearly articulating the problems met when implementing a polar decoder, and incrementally develops various novel solutions
  • A comprehensive evaluation of software implementation techniques of polar code decoders, targeting modern desktop and embedded processors and general-purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs)
  • A comprehensive evaluation of hardware implementation algorithms and architectures targeting both field-programmable-gate arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific-integrated circuits (ASICs)
  • Both the software and hardware implementation evaluations expose the trade-offs in terms of latency, throughput and complexity
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Polar Codes

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 1-13
  3. Fast Low-Complexity Hardware Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 15-30
  4. Low-Latency Software Polar Decoders

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 31-53
  5. Unrolled Hardware Architectures for Polar Decoders

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 55-71
  6. Multi-Mode Unrolled Polar Decoding

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 73-85
  7. Conclusion and Future Work

    • Pascal Giard, Claude Thibeault, Warren J. Gross
    Pages 87-89
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 91-98

About this book

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 authors take a tutorial approach to explain the practical decoder implementation challenges and trade-offs in either software or hardware. They also demonstrate new trade-offs in latency, throughput, and complexity in software implementations for high-performance computing and GPGPUs, and hardware implementations using custom processing elements, full-custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and field-programmable-gate arrays (FPGAs).

Presenting a good overview of this research area and future directions, High-Speed Decoders for Polar Codes is perfect for any researcher or SDR practitioner looking into implementing efficient decoders for polar codes, as well as students and professors in a modern error correction class. As polar codes have been accepted to protect the control channel in the next-generation mobile communication standard (5G) developed by the 3GPP, the audience includes engineers who will have to implement decoders for such codes and hardware engineers designing the backbone of communication networks.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Pascal Giard

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada

    Claude Thibeault

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

    Warren J. Gross

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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