Irregular polar code encoding
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsToshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, Stark C Draper
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Abstract
A transmitter for transmitting an encoded codeword over a communication channel is described. The transmitter includes a source to accept source data, an irregular polar encoder operated by a processor to encode the source data with at least one polar code to produce an encoded codeword, a modulator to modulate the encoded codeword, and a front end to transmit the modulated and encoded codeword over the communication channel, wherein the polar code is specified by a set of regular parameters and a set of irregular parameters.
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A transmitter for transmitting an encoded codeword over a fiber-optic communication channel, comprising:
- a source to accept source data to be transmitted;
- an irregular polar encoder operated by a processor to encode the source data with a polar code to produce the encoded codeword, wherein the polar code is specified by a set of regular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining a number of data bits in the codeword, a parameter defining a data index set specifying locations of frozen bits in the encoded codeword, and a parameter defining a number of parity bits in the encoded codeword, wherein the polar code is further specified by a set of irregular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining an irregularity of values of at least one regular parameter of the polar code, a parameter defining an irregularity of permutation of the encoded bits, a parameter defining an irregularity of polarization kernels in the polar code, and a parameter defining an irregularity in selection of de-activated exclusive-or operations on different stages of the polar encoding, and wherein the irregular polar encoder encodes the source data using the regular and the irregular parameters of the polar code;
- a modulator to modulate the encoded codeword;
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- a front end to transmit the modulated and encoded codeword over the fiber-optic communication channel.
A method for transmitting an encoded codeword over a fiber-optic communication channel, comprising:
- accepting source data to be transmitted;
- encoding the source data with an irregular polar code to produce the encoded codeword, wherein the irregular polar code is specified by a set of regular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining a number of data bits in the codeword, a parameter defining a data index set specifying locations of frozen bits in the encoded codeword, and a parameter defining a number of parity bits in the encoded codeword, wherein the polar code is further specified by a set of irregular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining an irregularity of values of at least one regular parameter of the polar code, a parameter defining an irregularity of permutation of the encoded bits, a parameter defining an irregularity of polarization kernels in the polar code, and a parameter defining an irregularity in selection of de-activated exclusive-or operations on different stages of the polar encoding, and wherein the irregular polar encoder encodes the codeword using the regular and the irregular parameters of the polar code;
- modulating the encoded codeword;
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- transmitting the modulated and encoded codeword over the fiber-optic communication channel.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodied thereon a program executable by a processor for performing a method for transmitting an encoded codeword over a fiber-optic communication channel, the method comprising:
- accepting source data;
- encoding the source data with an irregular polar code to produce the encoded codeword, wherein the irregular polar code is specified by a set of regular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining a number of data bits in the codeword, a parameter defining a data index set specifying locations of frozen bits in the encoded codeword, and a parameter defining a number of parity bits in the encoded codeword, wherein the polar code is further specified by a set of irregular parameters including one or combination of a parameter defining an irregularity of values of at least one regular parameter of the polar code, a parameter defining an irregularity of permutation of the encoded bits, a parameter defining an irregularity of polarization kernels in the polar code, and a parameter defining an irregularity in selection of de-activated exclusive-or operations on different stages of the polar encoding, and wherein the irregular polar encoder encodes the codeword using the regular and the irregular parameters of the polar code;
- modulating the encoded codeword;
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- transmitting the modulated and encoded codeword over the fiber-optic communication channel.
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