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Faulty Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes for the Binary Erasure Channel (1404.1736v2)
Published 7 Apr 2014 in cs.IT and math.IT
Abstract: We study faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel. To this end, we introduce a simple erasure-based fault model and we show that, under this model, polarization does not happen, meaning that fully reliable communication is not possible at any rate. Moreover, we provide numerical results for the frame erasure rate and bit erasure rate and we study an unequal error protection scheme that can significantly improve the performance of the faulty successive cancellation decoder with negligible overhead.