Publications [#352873] of Henry Pfister

Papers Published

1. Coskun, MC; Pfister, HD, Bounds on the List Size of Successive Cancellation List Decoding, Spcom 2020 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (July, 2020), ISBN 9781728188959 [doi]
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   Successive cancellation list decoding of polar codes provides very good performance for short to moderate block lengths. However, the list size required to approach the performance of maximum-likelihood decoding is still not well understood theoretically. This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to this required list size. It also provides a natural approximation for these quantities that can be computed efficiently even for very long codes. Simulation results are provided for the binary erasure channel as well as the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel.