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most citedLLR-based Successive Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes

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72 papers

cs.IT2026

High-throughput Low-latency Hardware Implementation of BCH Decoders

Jasper Lagendijk, Wenqing Song, Yunus Can Gültekin +3

Two well-known decoding algorithms for BCH codes are conventional decoding, based on the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm in combination with Chien search, and direct decoding, which use…

cs.IT2026

Syndrome Adaptive Gain Control for Min-Sum Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes

Hernan Cordova, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Yunus Can Gültekin +2

Min-Sum (MS) decoding is a popular low-complexity alternative to belief propagation (BP), retaining only the minimum incoming message magnitude during check-node (CN) processing, a…

cs.IT2026

On LLR Mismatch in Belief Propagation Decoding of Overcomplete QLDPC Codes

Hernan Cordova, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Gabriele Liga +2

Belief propagation (BP) decoding of quantum low density parity check (QLDPC) codes is often implemented using overcomplete stabilizer (OS) representations, where redundant parity c…

cs.IT2025

Lowering Error Floors for Hard Decision Decoding of OFEC Code

Jasper Lagendijk, Yunus Can Gültekin, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +2

Stall patterns are known to cause an error floor in hard decision decoding of the OFEC code. We propose a novel stall pattern removal algorithm that lowers the error floor of state…

cs.IT2025★ 4 cited

Generalized Restart Mechanism for Successive-Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes

Ilshat Sagitov, Charles Pillet, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +1

Polar codes are a class of linear error-correction codes that have received a lot of attention due to their ability to achieve channel capacity in an arbitrary binary discrete memo…

eess.SP2025★ 10 cited

ComplexBeat: Breathing Rate Estimation from Complex CSI

Sitian Li, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Andreas Burg +1

In this paper, we explore the use of channel state information (CSI) from a WiFi system to estimate the breathing rate of a person in a room. In order to extract WiFi CSI component…

eess.SP2025

Training Channel Selection for Learning-based 1-bit Precoding in Massive MU-MIMO

Sitian Li, Andreas Burg, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

Learning-based algorithms have gained great popularity in communications since they often outperform even carefully engineered solutions by learning from training samples. In this…

eess.SP2024

An SDR-Based Monostatic Wi-Fi System with Analog Self-Interference Cancellation for Sensing

Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg

Wireless sensing offers an alternative to wearables for contactless monitoring of human activity and vital signs. However, most existing systems use bistatic setups, which suffer f…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Edge-Spreading Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for 6G Wireless Systems

Yuqing Ren, Leyu Zhang, Yifei Shen +4

Next-generation channel coding has stringent demands on throughput, energy consumption, and error rate performance while maintaining key features of 5G New Radio (NR) standard code…

cs.AR2024

Hardware Implementation of Projection-Aggregation Decoders for Reed-Muller Codes

Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari, Andrea Nardi-Dei, Kees Goossens +1

This paper presents the hardware implementation of two variants of projection-aggregation-based decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, namely unique projection aggregation (UPA) and c…

cs.AR2024

A Node-Based Polar List Decoder with Frame Interleaving and Ensemble Decoding Support

Yuqing Ren, Leyu Zhang, Ludovic Damien Blanc +5

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularl…

cs.IT2023

A Generalized Adjusted Min-Sum Decoder for 5G LDPC Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Yuqing Ren, Hassan Harb, Yifei Shen +2

5G New Radio (NR) has stringent demands on both performance and complexity for the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding algorithms and corresponding VLSI implementati…

cs.IT2023★ 2 cited

Unrolled and Pipelined Decoders based on Look-Up Tables for Polar Codes

Pascal Giard, Syed Aizaz Ali Shah, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +2

Unrolling a decoding algorithm allows to achieve extremely high throughput at the cost of increased area. Look-up tables (LUTs) can be used to replace functions otherwise implement…

cs.IT2023★ 4 cited

Successive-Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes with a Simplified Restart Mechanism

Ilshat Sagitov, Charles Pillet, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +1

Polar codes are a class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of practical channels. The successive-cancellation flip (SCF) decoder is a low-complexity decod…

eess.SP2023★ 6 cited

Band-of-Interest-based Channel Impulse Response Fusion for Breathing Rate Estimation with UWB

Sitian Li, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg

The channel impulse response (CIR) obtained from the channel estimation step of various wireless systems is a widely used source of information in wireless sensing. Breathing rate…

eess.SP2022★ 4 cited

Single-anchor UWB Localization using Channel Impulse Response Distributions

Sitian Li, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg

Ultra-wideband (UWB) devices are widely used in indoor localization scenarios. Single-anchor UWB localization shows advantages because of its simple system setup compared to conven…

cs.IT2022

Recursive/Iterative unique Projection-Aggregation of RM codes

Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari, Renate Debets, Kees Goossens +1

We describe recursive unique projection-aggregation (RUPA) decoding and iterative unique projection-aggregation (IUPA) decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, which remove non-unique p…

cs.IT2022★ 5 cited

High-Throughput Flexible Belief Propagation List Decoder for Polar Codes

Yuqing Ren, Yifei Shen, Leyu Zhang +4

Owing to its high parallelism, belief propagation (BP) decoding is highly amenable to high-throughput implementations and thus represents a promising solution for meeting the ultra…

cs.IT2022

Pipelined Architecture for Soft-decision Iterative Projection Aggregation Decoding for RM Codes

Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari, Yuqing Ren, Kees Goossens +1

The recently proposed recursive projection-aggregation (RPA) decoding algorithm for Reed-Muller codes has received significant attention as it provides near-ML decoding performance…

cs.IT2022

Multi-Factor Pruning for Recursive Projection-Aggregation Decoding of RM Codes

Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari, Kees Goossens, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

The recently introduced recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoding method for Reed-Muller (RM) codes can achieve near-maximum likelihood (ML) decoding performance. However, it…

cs.IT2022

Reducing the Error Floor of the Sign-Preserving Min-Sum LDPC Decoder via Message Weighting of Low-Degree Variable Nodes

Lotte Paulissen, Alex Alvarado, Kaiquan Wu +1

Some low-complexity LDPC decoders suffer from error floors. We apply iteration-dependent weights to the degree-3 variable nodes to solve this problem. When the 802.3ca EPON LDPC co…

cs.IT2022★ 55 cited

A Sequence Repetition Node-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoder for 5G Polar Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Yuqing Ren, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen +3

Due to the low-latency and high-reliability requirements of 5G, low-complexity node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention for use in…

cs.IT2021★ 15 cited

A Soft-Aided Staircase Decoder Using Three-Level Channel Reliabilities

Yi Lei, Bin Chen, Gabriele Liga +3

The soft-aided bit-marking (SABM) algorithm is based on the idea of marking bits as highly reliable bits (HRBs), highly unreliable bits (HUBs), and uncertain bits to improve the pe…

eess.SP2021

On the Implementation Complexity of Digital Full-Duplex Self-Interference Cancellation

Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Andreas Burg

In-band full-duplex systems promise to further increase the throughput of wireless systems, by simultaneously transmitting and receiving on the same frequency band. However, concur…