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International Conference on Computer Network, Electronic and Automation (ICCNEA)

Research on BP Decoding of Polar Codes Aided by Deep Learning

Chang Yun, Guiping Li

Published Sep 1, 2021• 2 citations
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Abstract

In recent years, polar codes under deep learning have become a research hotspot because of their outstanding decoding performance. The neural network-based polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm can improve the decoding performance significantly, but the computational complexity and delay of the neural network-based polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm still need to be improved. In this paper, the theory of polar codes coding and the traditional polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm are introduced. The polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm based on deep neural network and recurrent neural network and the advantages and disadvantages of different decoding algorithms are mainly discussed, and the computational complexity of these algorithms is analyzed. According to the offset minimum sum approximation and scaling offset minimum sum approximation, the polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm based on recurrent neural network is optimized. Simulation results show that, compared with the traditional polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm, the decoding algorithm improves the decoding performance, reduces the computational complexity and reduces the iteration times of the algorithm. Compared with the polar codes confidence propagation decoding algorithm based on deep neural network and recurrent neural network, the multiplication and memory overhead of the algorithm are greatly reduced while the decoding performance of the algorithm is guaranteed.

DOI
10.1109/iccnea53019.2021.00033

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Abstract Compared with SC decoding, BP decoding with the parallel mechanism has higher throughput and lower latency, which is more suitable for the demand of 5G scene. To further improve its FER performance and reduce the memory overhead, a recurrent neural network-aided bit-flipping BP decoding of polar codes is proposed. Firstly, it uses bit flip to correct the wrong decoded bits during the decoding iteration. And then, the offset min-sum approximation is used to replace multiplication operation. Lastly the improved recurrent neural network architecture is adopted to realize parameter sharing. The simulation shows that the proposed scheme has a better error correction ability with fewer flipping times, and can effectively reduce the computational resource consumption and extra memory overhead of BP decoding.
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