Bit-Interleaved Polar-Coded Modulation for Low-Latency Short-Block Transmission

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2017.w1j.6
• Publication Date: 2017-03-10T12:36:58Z
• Authors: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Ye Wang; Stark C. Draper; Kenya Sugihara; Wataru Matsumoto; David S. Millar; Kieran Parsons; Keisuke Kojima
• Keywords: 0211 other engineering and technologies; 02 engineering and technology

We show that polar codes with list+CRC decoding can outperform state-of-the-art LDPC codes in short block lengths. In addition, we introduce an efficient interleaver for polar-coded high-order modulations, achieving greater than 0.5 dB gain for 256QAM.