In this work, we show that polar belief propagation (BP) decoding exhibits an error floor behavior which is caused by clipping of the log-likelihood ratios (LLR). The error floor becomes more pronounced for clipping to smaller LLR-values. We introduce a single-value measure quantifying a “relative error floor”, showing, by exhaustive simulations for different lengths, that the error floor is mainly caused by inadequate clipping values. We propose four modifications to the conventional BP decoding algorithm to mitigate this error floor behavior, demonstrating that the error floor is a decoder property, and not a code property. The results agree with the fact that polar codes are theoretically proven to not suffer from error floors. Finally, we show that another cause of error floors can be an improper selection of frozen bit positions.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 elkelesh2017mitigating
%A Elkelesh, Ahmed
%A Cammerer, Sebastian
%A Ebada, Moustafa
%A ten Brink, Stephan
%B 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
%C Piscataway, NJ
%D 2017
%I IEEE
%K sent ubs_10005 ubs_20007 ubs_30073 ubs_40406 unibibliografie
%P 384-389
%R 10.1109/ISWCS.2017.8108145
%T Mitigating clipping effects on error floors under belief propagation decoding of polar codes
%X In this work, we show that polar belief propagation (BP) decoding exhibits an error floor behavior which is caused by clipping of the log-likelihood ratios (LLR). The error floor becomes more pronounced for clipping to smaller LLR-values. We introduce a single-value measure quantifying a “relative error floor”, showing, by exhaustive simulations for different lengths, that the error floor is mainly caused by inadequate clipping values. We propose four modifications to the conventional BP decoding algorithm to mitigate this error floor behavior, demonstrating that the error floor is a decoder property, and not a code property. The results agree with the fact that polar codes are theoretically proven to not suffer from error floors. Finally, we show that another cause of error floors can be an improper selection of frozen bit positions.
%@ 978-1-5386-2913-0 and 978-1-5386-2914-7
@inproceedings{elkelesh2017mitigating,
abstract = {In this work, we show that polar belief propagation (BP) decoding exhibits an error floor behavior which is caused by clipping of the log-likelihood ratios (LLR). The error floor becomes more pronounced for clipping to smaller LLR-values. We introduce a single-value measure quantifying a “relative error floor”, showing, by exhaustive simulations for different lengths, that the error floor is mainly caused by inadequate clipping values. We propose four modifications to the conventional BP decoding algorithm to mitigate this error floor behavior, demonstrating that the error floor is a decoder property, and not a code property. The results agree with the fact that polar codes are theoretically proven to not suffer from error floors. Finally, we show that another cause of error floors can be an improper selection of frozen bit positions.},
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address = {Piscataway, NJ},
author = {Elkelesh, Ahmed and Cammerer, Sebastian and Ebada, Moustafa and ten Brink, Stephan},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2577590574598a52893ae900c44842f01/unibiblio},
booktitle = {2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)},
doi = {10.1109/ISWCS.2017.8108145},
eventdate = {2017-08-28/2017-08-31},
eventtitle = {2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)},
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isbn = {{978-1-5386-2913-0} and {978-1-5386-2914-7}},
keywords = {sent ubs_10005 ubs_20007 ubs_30073 ubs_40406 unibibliografie},
language = {eng},
pages = {384-389},
publisher = {IEEE},
timestamp = {2021-06-25T10:46:02.000+0200},
title = {Mitigating clipping effects on error floors under belief propagation decoding of polar codes},
venue = {Bologna, Italy},
year = 2017
}