Successive-Cancellation Flip and Perturbation Decoder of Polar Codes

In this paper, two decoding algorithms based on Successive-Cancellation (SC) are proposed to improve the error-correction performance of cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided polar codes while aiming for a low-complexity implementation. Comparisons with Dynamic SC Flip (DSCF) and SC Perturbation (SCP) are carried out since the proposed DSCF and Perturbation (DSCFP) and Perturbed DSCF (PDSCF) algorithms combine both methods. The analysis includes comparisons with several code lengths N and various number of decoding attempts T_max. For N=1024 and the coding rate R= 1/2, the DSCF and the SCP algorithms with T_max= 17 are bested by approximately 0.1 dB at block-error rate (BLER) of 0.001. At BLER = 10^-6 and for T_max= 64, the gain is of 0.375 dB and > 0.5 dB with respect to DSCF and SCP, respectively. At high signal-to-noise ratio, the average computational complexity of the proposed algorithms is virtually equivalent to that of SC.