An Adaptive Fusion Successive Cancellation List Decoder for Polar Codes with Cyclic Redundancy Check

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptive fusion successive cancellation list decoder (ADF-SCL) for polar codes with single cyclic redundancy check. The proposed ADF-SCL decoder reasonably avoids unnecessary calculations by selecting the successive cancellation (SC) decoder or the adaptive successive cancellation list (AD-SCL) decoder depending on a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) threshold in the decoding process. Simulation results show that compared to the AD-SCL decoder, the proposed decoder can achieve significant reduction of the average complexity in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region without degradation of the performance. When L_max=32 and E_b/N₀=0.5dB, the average complexity of the proposed decoder is 14.23% lower than that of the AD-SCL decoder.