SC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes with High Order Error Correction Based on Error Dependency

Abstract

The successive cancellation flip (SC-Flip) decoding algorithm arose as a valid low-complexity decoding algorithm for polar codes, however its decoding capabilities are still far away from list based decoders. In this paper, we propose an improved SC-Flip multiple error decoding framework based on error dependency, and specialize it for the two-error correction case. We propose to generate different lists of second error locations based on the index of the expected first errors. The inherent flexibility of this approach allows it to be modified for a desired trade-off between performance and complexity. Two second errors list construction approaches are presented, and are shown to yield gains over the original SC-Flip decoder at the same decoding complexity.