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most citedFast Polar Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation

442 citations · 1.1k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AR2017★ 50 cited

PolarBear: A 28-nm FD-SOI ASIC for Decoding of Polar Codes

Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Thomas Christoph Müller +5

Polar codes are a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so wi…

cs.AR2017★ 13 cited

A Multi-Gbps Unrolled Hardware List Decoder for a Systematic Polar Code

Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Thomas Christoph Müller +3

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity success…

cs.IT2016★ 29 cited

Hardware Decoders for Polar Codes: An Overview

Pascal Giard, Gabi Sarkis, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +5

Polar codes are an exciting new class of error correcting codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels. Many decoding algorithms were developed and implemented,…

cs.IT2016★ 51 cited

Fast Low-Complexity Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes

Pascal Giard, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Gabi Sarkis +2

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-t…

cs.IT2015★ 114 cited

Flexible and Low-Complexity Encoding and Decoding of Systematic Polar Codes

Gabi Sarkis, Ido Tal, Pascal Giard +3

In this work, we present hardware and software implementations of flexible polar systematic encoders and decoders. The proposed implementations operate on polar codes of any length…

cs.IT2015★ 163 cited

Fast List Decoders for Polar Codes

Gabi Sarkis, Pascal Giard, Alexander Vardy +2

Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and m…