Comparison of Polar Decoders with Existing Low-Density Parity-Check and Turbo Decoders
arXiv:1702.04707 · doi:10.1109/WCNCW.2017.7919106
Abstract
Polar codes are a recently proposed family of provably capacity-achieving error-correction codes that received a lot of attention. While their theoretical properties render them interesting, their practicality compared to other types of codes has not been thoroughly studied. Towards this end, in this paper, we perform a comparison of polar decoders against LDPC and Turbo decoders that are used in existing communications standards. More specifically, we compare both the error-correction performance and the hardware efficiency of the corresponding hardware implementations. This comparison enables us to identify applications where polar codes are superior to existing error-correction coding solutions as well as to determine the most promising research direction in terms of the hardware implementation of polar decoders.
Fixes small mistakes from the paper to appear in the proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2017. Results were presented in the "Polar Coding in Wireless Communications: Theory and Implementation" Workshop
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