This application is based on and claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) of a Korean patent application number 10-2021-0064862, filed on May 20, 2021, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The disclosure was made by or on behalf of the below listed parties to a joint research agreement. The joint research agreement was in effect on or before the date the disclosure was made and the disclosure was made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of the joint research agreement. The parties to the joint research agreement are 1) Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and 2) Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY.
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for encoding a polar code. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for decoding a polar code.
Fifth generation (5G) mobile communication technologies define broad frequency bands such that high transmission rates and new services are possible, and can be implemented not only in “Sub 6 GHz” bands such as 3.5 GHz, but also in “Above 6 GHz” bands referred to as mmWave including 28 GHz and 39 GHz. In addition, it has been considered to implement sixth generation (6G) mobile communication technologies (referred to as Beyond 5G systems) in terahertz bands (for example, 95 GHz to 3 THz bands) in order to accomplish transmission rates fifty times faster than 5G mobile communication technologies and ultra-low latencies one-tenth of 5G mobile communication technologies.
At the beginning of the development of 5G mobile communication technologies, in order to support services and to satisfy performance requirements in connection with enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), there has been ongoing standardization regarding beamforming and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) for mitigating radio-wave path loss and increasing radio-wave transmission distances in mmWave, supporting numerologies (for example, operating multiple subcarrier spacings) for efficiently utilizing mmWave resources and dynamic operation of slot formats, initial access technologies for supporting multi-beam transmission and broadbands, definition and operation of BandWidth Part (BWP), new channel coding methods such as a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code for large amount of data transmission and a polar code for highly reliable transmission of control information, L2 pre-processing, and network slicing for providing a dedicated network specialized to a specific service.
Currently, there are ongoing discussions regarding improvement and performance enhancement of initial 5G mobile communication technologies in view of services to be supported by 5G mobile communication technologies, and there has been physical layer standardization regarding technologies such as Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) for aiding driving determination by autonomous vehicles based on information regarding positions and states of vehicles transmitted by the vehicles and for enhancing user convenience, New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) aimed at system operations conforming to various regulation-related requirements in unlicensed bands, new radio (NR) user equipment (UE) Power Saving, Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) which is UE-satellite direct communication for providing coverage in an area in which communication with terrestrial networks is unavailable, and positioning.
Moreover, there has been ongoing standardization in air interface architecture/protocol regarding technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for supporting new services through interworking and convergence with other industries, Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) for providing a node for network service area expansion by supporting a wireless backhaul link and an access link in an integrated manner, mobility enhancement including conditional handover and Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) handover, and two-step random access for simplifying random access procedures (2-step random access channel (RACH) for NR). There also has been ongoing standardization in system architecture/service regarding a 5G baseline architecture (for example, service based architecture or service based interface) for combining Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies, and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for receiving services based on UE positions.
As 5G mobile communication systems are commercialized, connected devices that have been exponentially increasing will be connected to communication networks, and it is accordingly expected that enhanced functions and performances of 5G mobile communication systems and integrated operations of connected devices will be necessary. To this end, new research is scheduled in connection with eXtended Reality (XR) for efficiently supporting Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) and the like, 5G performance improvement and complexity reduction by utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), AI service support, metaverse service support, and drone communication.
Furthermore, such development of 5G mobile communication systems will serve as a basis for developing not only new waveforms for providing coverage in terahertz bands of 6G mobile communication technologies, multi-antenna transmission technologies such as Full Dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), array antennas and large-scale antennas, metamaterial-based lenses and antennas for improving coverage of terahertz band signals, high-dimensional space multiplexing technology using Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), but also full-duplex technology for increasing frequency efficiency of 6G mobile communication technologies and improving system networks, AI-based communication technology for implementing system optimization by utilizing satellites and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the design stage and internalizing end-to-end AI support functions, and next-generation distributed computing technology for implementing services at levels of complexity exceeding the limit of UE operation capability by utilizing ultra-high-performance communication and computing resources.
The above information is presented as background information only to assist with an understanding of the disclosure. No determination has been made, and no assertion is made, as to whether any of the above might be applicable as prior art with regard to the disclosure.
Aspects of the disclosure are to address at least the above-mentioned problems and/or disadvantages and to provide at least the advantages described below Accordingly, an aspect of the disclosure is to provide a technique for encoding and decoding of a parity polar code, whereby decoding performance is improved by effectively determining positions of parity bits based on various interconnections between bits.
Additional aspects will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the presented embodiments.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a method of encoding a polar code is provided. The method includes obtaining state-indicator information indicating a state of each of bits included in the polar code based on an index set of the bits, identifying a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a parity bit candidate position preset according to an interconnection within a parity-check (PC)-chain of the polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code as a parity bit, based on a number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and a number of bits to be used as parity bits, when a number of the parity bits identified according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code corresponds to the number of bits to be used as the parity bits, terminating identification of the weak-bit or the second weak-bit as the parity bit, and obtaining a polar code including the identified parity bit.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, a method of decoding a polar code is provided. The method includes obtaining information and the polar code, the information being about an index of a parity bit identified according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of the polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code, and decoding the obtained polar code based on the information about the index of the parity bit, wherein the parity bit includes a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a parity bit candidate position preset according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code, based on a number of weak-bits determined according to state-indicator information and a number of bits to be used as parity bits, and wherein the state-indicator information indicates a state of each of bits included in the polar code based on an index set of the bits.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus for decoding a polar code is provided. The apparatus includes a transceiver and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to obtain state-indicator information indicating a state of each of bits included in the polar code based on an index set of the bits, to identify a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a parity bit candidate position preset according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of the polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code, based on a number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and a number of bits to be used as parity bits, when a number of the parity bits identified according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code corresponds to the number of bits to be used as the parity bits, to terminate identification of the weak-bit or the second weak-bit as the parity bit, and to obtain a polar code including the identified parity bit.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus for decoding a polar code is provided. The apparatus includes a transceiver and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to obtain information and the polar code, the information being about an index of a parity bit identified according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of the polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code, and to decode the obtained polar code based on the information about the index of the parity bit, wherein the parity bit includes a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a parity bit candidate position preset according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code, based on a number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and a number of bits to be used as parity bits, and wherein the state-indicator information indicates a state of each of bits included in the polar code based on an index set of the bits.
Other aspects, advantages, and salient features of the disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, which, taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, discloses various embodiments of the disclosure.
The above and other aspects, features, and advantages of certain embodiments of the disclosure will be more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The same reference numerals are used to represent the same elements throughout the drawings.
The following description with reference to the accompanying drawings is provided to assist in a comprehensive understanding of various embodiments of the disclosure as defined by the claims and their equivalents. It includes various specific details to assist in that understanding but these are to be regarded as merely exemplary. Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the various embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the disclosure. In addition, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions may be omitted for clarity and conciseness.
The terms and words used in the following description and claims are not limited to the bibliographical meanings, but, are merely used by the inventor to enable a clear and consistent understanding of the disclosure. Accordingly, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the following description of various embodiments of the disclosure is provided for illustration purpose only and not for the purpose of limiting the disclosure as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
It is to be understood that the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. Thus, for example, reference to “a component surface” includes reference to one or more of such surfaces.
In the following description of embodiments, descriptions of techniques that are well known in the art and not directly related to the disclosure are omitted. This is to clearly convey the gist of the disclosure by omitting an unnecessary explanation. The terms used in the specification are defined in consideration of functions used in the disclosure, and can be changed according to the intent or commonly used methods of users or operators. Accordingly, definitions of the terms are understood based on the entire descriptions of the present specification.
For the same reasons, elements may be exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated in drawings for clarity. Also, the size of each element does not entirely reflect the actual size. The same reference numerals are assigned to the same or corresponding elements in the drawings.
The advantages and features of the disclosure and methods of achieving them will become apparent with reference to embodiments of the disclosure described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this regard, the embodiments of the disclosure may have different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the descriptions set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments of the disclosure are provided so that the disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the concept of the disclosure to one of ordinary skill in the art, and the disclosure will only be defined by the appended claims. In the specification, the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals. In describing the disclosure, when the detailed description of the relevant functions or configurations is determined to unnecessarily obscure the gist of the disclosure, the detailed description thereof may be omitted.
Throughout the disclosure, the expression “at least one of a, b, or c” indicates only a, only b, only c, both a and b, both a and c, both b and c, all of a, b, and c, or any variations thereof.
Throughout the specification, a layer may also be referred to as an entity.
Hereinafter, a base station (BS) is an entity that performs resource allocation of a user equipment (UE), and may be at least one of gNode B, eNode B, NodeB (or xNodeB (here, x is an alphabet including g and e)), wireless access unit, a base station controller, a satellite, an airborne, or a node on a network. The UE may include a mobile station, a vehicle, a satellite, an airborne, a cellular phone, a smartphone, a computer, or a multimedia system capable of performing a communication function. In the disclosure, a downlink (DL) denotes a wireless transmission path of a signal transmitted by a BS to a UE, and an uplink (UL) denotes a wireless transmission path of a signal transmitted by a UE to a BS. In addition, a sidelink (SL), which means a wireless transmission path of a signal transmitted by a UE to another UE, may be present.
Also, a long term evolution (LTE), long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), or 5G system will be described as an example, but the embodiments of the disclosure may also be applied to other communication systems having a similar technical background or channel type. For example, a 5G-Advance, NR-Advance, or 6G mobile communication technology (6G), which are developed after the 5G mobile communication technology (or new radio (NR)) may be included in the systems described above, and 5G described below may be a concept including an existing LTE, LTE-A, and other similar services. The disclosure is applicable to other communication systems through modification at the discretion of one of ordinary skill in the art without greatly departing from the scope of the disclosure.
In this case, it will be understood that each block of flowchart illustrations and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations may be implemented by computer program instructions. Because these computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general-purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing device, the instructions, which are executed via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device generate means for implementing functions specified in the flowchart block(s). Because these computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-executable or computer-readable memory that may direct a computer or other programmable data processing device to function in a particular manner, the instructions stored in the computer-executable or computer-readable memory may produce an article of manufacture including instruction means that implement the functions specified in the flowchart block(s). Because the computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device, a series of operational steps may be performed on the computer or other programmable device to produce a computer implemented process, and thus the instructions executed on the computer or other programmable device may provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart block(s).
In addition, each block of the flowchart illustrations may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which includes one or more executable instructions for performing specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of the order. For example, two blocks illustrated in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in a reverse order, depending on the functions involved therein.
In this case, the term “-er/or” used in the present embodiment refers to a software or hardware component, such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which performs certain tasks. However, the term “module” or “-er/or” is not limited to software or hardware. The term “module” or “-er/or” may be configured in an addressable storage medium or may be configured to reproduce one or more processors. Thus, for example, the term “-er/or” may refer to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, and may include processes, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, micro codes, circuits, data, a database, data structures, tables, arrays, or variables. The functionality provided in components and “-er/ors” may be combined into fewer components and “-er/ors” or may be further separated into additional components and “-er/ors”. Further, the elements and “-er/ors” may be implemented to operate one or more central processing units (CPUs) in a device or a secure multimedia card. Also, according to an embodiment, a “-er/or” may include one or more processors.
The polar codes are error correction codes capable of theoretically achieving a channel capacity, and the codes may be designed by using “channel polarization” including channel combination and channel splitting. x bits (xi: an ith codeword bit) may be generated through a multiplication of u bits (ui: an ith source bit) by a generator matrix
In addition, each of the codeword bits may experience a channel W that is independently and identically distributed (i.i.d), and thus, may be generated as y bits (yi:: an ith reception signal bit). In this case, a single large combination channel WN that connects bits of a u domain and bits of a y domain may be obtained, and this process is referred to as channel combination.
Channel splitting refers to a process of obtaining WN(i)(i∈{0,1, . . . , N−1}), which is a bit channel to be experienced by each of the u bits, from the combination channel WN. The bit channel to be experienced by the u bits includes a virtual bit channel. In the channel splitting process, each of the source (u) bits may be sequentially decoded one bit at a time. In this case, in order to evaluate quality of bit channels to be experienced by each of the u bits, when it is assumed that previously-decoded results ((u0, u1, . . . , ui−1)) were properly decoded, a bit channel with an ith source bit as an input and u0i−1 and y0N−1 as outputs may be obtained. For example, for u3, a bit channel WN(3) with u3(∈{0,1}) as an input and u02, y03 as outputs may be obtained.
Through channel polarization including channel combination and channel splitting, N bit channels WN(i) (i=0,2, . . . , N−1) having different quality from each other may be obtained from N i.i.d channels having the same quality as each other. In this case, in order to evaluate quality of the N bit channels, methods, such as density evaluation, Gaussian approximation, and polarization reliability, may be considered. In the disclosure, parity bits for designing a polar code may be provided by using a bit channel quality evaluation method based on polarization reliability from among various quality evaluation methods.
In the polarization reliability method, quality of each of bit channels is expressed based on a weighted sum, and quality of a bit channel WN(i) of which the index (i.e., decimal index) is i for a code length N(=2n) may be represented as in Equation 1 shown below.
In Equation 1, bj may be the binary expression of an index j(∈{0,1, . . . , N−1}). When the binary expression of the index i is (bn−1bn−2 . . . b1b0)2, bi indicates a bit value within (bn−1bn−2 . . . b1b0)2. b0 indicates a least significant bit (LSB), and bn−1 indicates a most significant bit (MSB). For example, when N=8, quality of all eight bit channels are W8(0)=0, PW8(1)=1, PW8(2)=1.189, PW8(3)=2.189, PW8(4)=1.414, PW8(5)=2.414, PW8(6)=2.603, PW8(7)=3.603, and the greater the quality value, the higher the reliability may be determined. In the polarization reliability evaluation method, quality of bit channels may be simply calculated as a weighted sum regardless of a channel type or code parameters (e.g., N, K). Unlike density evaluation or Gaussian approximation methods in which code design is performed according to a channel code parameter, the polarization reliability evaluation method may support (rate-compatible) various code rates by using a single sequence.
However, when designing a code of a polar code according to the related art, a 2×2 polarization kernel matrix is considered, and thus, a code-length is limited to 2n(n=1,2, . . . ). In order to apply a polar code to an actual application, an arbitrary code-length has to be supported, and thus, various code rate-matching methods, such as puncturing/shortening/repetition, may be applicable.
In the puncturing, J bits are removed from an x domain so that a codeword bit becomes M(=N−J), and the J punctured bits are not transmitted. Because a decoder does not include any information about bits to be punctured, a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) corresponding to the corresponding bits is set to 0. In the shortening, J bits to be shortened are selected in the u domain, and values of these bits are fixed at 0. Unlike puncturing, a receiver is aware of information indicating that the values of the selected bits are determined as 0. Accordingly, an LLR value of these bits may be initially set to a very large value (for example, a maximum value that may be set in hardware) before decoding.
A representative related art corresponding to the disclosure includes a code design method for a polar code using parity-check (PC). In a PC polar code, source (u) bits that may be vulnerable to errors during SC decoding of a polar code may be protected through single-parity-check pre-coding. In addition, in terms of a code, bits having a minimum weight are used as parity bits so that the minimum distance characteristic of a code is improved (a minimum distance is increased or the number of codewords having a minimum weight is reduced), an SCL decoding performance is further improved. The PC polar code may have excellent error rate performance with respect to general code parameter (e.g., various N, K) values, compared to a polar code using only cyclic redundancy check (CRC).
Meanwhile, in the disclosure, the PC polar code may be described as a polar code including a parity bit.
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The design goal of a polar code for a PC polar code is to keep a minimum code distance and the total reliability of bits in an information set high, and to have excellent error rate performance during SCL decoding. In the bit-classification step, index sets in, , to be used as information bits/parity bits/shortened bits for code rate-matching may be determined, and an input thereof is ū0K−1, and an output is u0K−1. Here, in is an index set of information bits, is an index set of parity bits for pre-coding, and is an index set of bits shortened for code rate-matching. Hereinafter, bit-classification performed before polar encoding is described in greater detail with reference to
Referring to
A parity bit may be defined as a union of different index sets and
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For example, in a code sequence of
In the disclosure, bits having a minimum weight in the set are described as weak-bits, and bits having a second minimum weight are described as second weak-bits. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, some or all of weak-bits may be selected as parity bits, and some of second weak-bits may also be selected as parity bits.
An index set of weak-bits having a minimum weight and an index set of second weak-bits having a second minimum weight may be defined as in Equation 3 shown below.
m1={i∈|wN(i)=dmin}
m2={i∈|wN(i)=2dmin} Equation 3
In Equation 3, indicates an index set of (K+f) bits having the highest polarization reliability (e.g., polarization weight), wN(i) indicates a row weight in a generator matrix GN(=G2⊗n) corresponding to an ith bit channel, and dmin indicates a minimum value from among row weights corresponding to each of the (K+f) bit channels having the highest polarization reliability.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, when the number (|m1|) of weak-bits in the set is greater than the number (f) of parity bits (i.e., parity group 2) to be actually selected, f weak-bits from among the |m1| weak-bits may be selected as parity bits. In the related art, polarization reliability is used as a criterion for selecting f parity bits from among weak-bits, and f bits having the largest polarization reliability value may be selected. In addition, when the number (f) of parity bits to be actually selected is greater than the number (|m1|) of weak-bits (i.e., >|m1|), all of the weak-bits may be selected as parity bits, and an additional parity bit may be further selected from among second weak-bits. In this case, in the related art, a descending order of polarization reliability is used as a criterion for selecting a parity bit from among second weak-bits.
Through the parity selection process based on polarization reliability, a parity index set may be determined, and ,
After an index set of bits to be used as parity bits (parity group 2: ) or information bits (in) are determined, as described above, values of the parity bits may be determined through PC pre-coding.
The PC pre-coding may be performed in a bit group defined in the u domain. First, bits of the u domain consisting of information bits and parity bits may be classified into l sets. Pre-coding using a single parity-check code may be performed in each of the classified groups. The information bits are filled with message bits that are encoding inputs, and the parity bits may be determined as a binary-sum of all preceding information bits in the bit group.
In the related art, cyclic shift register (CSR) which is easy for hardware implementation is used as a method for pre-coding. For CSR having a length of l, bits of the u domain may be divided into a total of l bit groups, and bits having the same remainder obtained by dividing the bits by l may be grouped together. In each of bit groups obtained as a result of the grouping, elements are sequentially used in an encoding process, and thus are called PC-chain. For example, when l is 5, bits having indices with the same remainder obtained by dividing the bits by 5 may have an interconnection with each other.
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As described above with reference to
In addition, in the related-art PC polar code, a length of a subblock including weak-bit(s) in a PC-chain and the number of weak-bits are not considered. Further, because a sequential decoding is performed, the polar code is not free from the effect of error propagation in which an error in a specific bit causes an error in subsequent bits. Therefore, independence between the PC-chains is not ensured, and a parity bit selection method that considers error propagation is necessary.
In the disclosure, a parity bit may be selected by considering a complex interconnection between a PC-chain and bits within the PC-chain. An encoding apparatus according to an embodiment may select positions of weak-bits vulnerable to errors by using the number of parity bits to be selected and add the corresponding bits to the set , thereby strengthening a local protection level.
SC/SCL decoding of a polar code is sequential decoding, and thus, the decoding is sequentially performed one bit at a time in an ascending order of bit indices. In this case, an error in a specific bit may cause a continuous error to a subsequent bit, and this is called error propagation. In particular, most of the error propagation may occur with a 2k spacing due to the design characteristics of a polar code.
In the related-art PC polar code, in order to offset the effect of error propagation, a CSR of which the length is 5 (≠2k, k is an integer) is used, but when bits of which the indices are neighboring are all weak-bits (or second weak-bits), the PC polar code may be very vulnerable to errors. In other words, even when an arbitrary l is used, the correlation between bits between PC-chains still remains, and thus, a problem of error propagation may occur.
In addition, when multiple weak-bits (or second weak-bits) are present in a specific PC-chain or when a weak-bit (or a second weak-bit) is included in a long subblock, decoding performance is significantly deteriorated. In the disclosure, a method of determining a set of parity bits (i.e., and ) by considering a relationship between bits in a PC-chain and structural connectivity between PC-chains.
Hereinafter, the method of determining a set of parity bits (i.e., and ) by considering the relationship between the bits in the PC-chain and the structural connectivity between the PC-chains is described in greater detail.
In operation 710, the encoding apparatus may obtain state-indicator information indicating a state of each of bits included in a polar code based on an index set of the bits.
The state-indicator information according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a state-indicator matrix H, and the state-indicator matrix may indicate a state of each of bit channels in an index matrix I in an encoding process. To describe the state-indicator matrix H in greater detail, parameters required for obtaining the state-indicator matrix by taking a polar code in which a code length is N and the number of information bits is K, as an example.
With respect to the polar code in which the code length is N and the number of information bits is K, an index set (or a sequence or matrix) in which a set of each of bit indices (i; 0≤i≤N−1) is ordered in one order may be defined as I. In addition, sub-sequences Ij (0≤j≤l−1) of the index set (or sequence) may be defined, and the sub-sequences may have mutually exclusive indices, and a union thereof forms I. In other words, I=∪Ij, 0≤j≤l−1, and Ij is a jth sub-set (or sequence or matrix) in I and satisfies Ij={Ij,0,Ij,1, . . . , Ij,|I
In a PC pre-coding process, when Ij,k (k∈{0,1, . . . ,|Ij|} is an index corresponding to an information bit, a message bit value of the information bit may be determined independently of other bits. When Ij,k is an index corresponding to a parity bit, the parity bit may be encoded as in Equation 4 shown below. In other words, a value of a bit corresponding to the index Ij,k may be determined as the binary sum of information bit values, not parity bits.
For example, when N=16, l=5 and sub-sequences are determined as a set of bits having the same remainder obtained by dividing the bits by 5, it may be expressed as I0=[0 5 10 15], I1=[1 6 11], I2=[2 7 12], I3=[3 8 13], I4=[4 9 14]. In an embodiment of the disclosure, a modulo operation may be applied in a sub-grouping process and an encoding process.
A bit having an index of i (0≤i≤N−1) belongs to a PC-chain (i mod l), and bits having the same remainder obtained by dividing the bits by l may have an interconnection in the same PC-chain. In other words, the bits having the same remainder may be sub-grouped, and the pre-coding process may be exclusively performed in each PC-chain. In other words, the PC-chain j may be determined through a modulo operation, such as {i∈{0,1, . . . , N−1}|(i mod l)=j}, (l: an integer greater than or equal to 2, j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1}). In this case, an index matrix consisting of indices (in an ascending order or ordered) bits in the jth PC-chain may be defined as Ij(j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1}), and an index matrix I of a total of N bits with which all PC-chains are concatenated may be expressed as in Equation 5 shown below.
I=[I0TI1T . . . Il−1T]T Equation 5
When l=5, the index matrix I and an index sub-matrix Ij(j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1} corresponding to each PC-chain may be expressed as in Equation 6 shown below.
A code sequence code of a polar code is a permutation ordered in a descending order according to reliability of each of bit channels WN(i)(i∈{0,1, . . . , N−1}). The reliability of each bit channel is theoretically evaluated based on channel capacity and Bhattacharyya parameters, and this may be approximately calculated or expressed through various methods, such as density evolution, Gaussian approximation, and polarization reliability.
A code sequence of a polar code obtained by a specific method is indicated by code. In this case, an index set (or sequence or matrix) of (K+f) bits having the highest reliability is code(1: K+f). In addition, a minimum value dmin of row weights corresponding to bits in the set may be expressed as dmin=min({wN(i)}) (i∈), and wN(i) indicates a row weight corresponding to an ith bit channel wN(i) in a generator matrix
is a Kronecker product) of a polar code.
In addition, index sets m1 and m2 of bits having a minimum Hamming weight (dmin) and twice of the minimum Hamming weight from among the bit indices within the set may be m1={i∈|wN(i)=dmin}, m2={i∈|wN(i)=2dmin}, respectively.
Each of elements of the state-indicator matrix H may have a value of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 5, where 0 denotes a state of being finally determined as a parity bit, 1 denotes a state of being determined as an information bit, and 2 and 3 denote a temporary state of being used in a design process. In addition, 5 indicates a default value for bits having an index of N or greater in I. The index matrix I in which N=16 and l=5 may have a form as Equation 7 shown below.
In this case, each of the bits (i∈{0, 1, . . . , 15}) is in one state from among an information bit (in), a bit of parity group 1 (
For example, when l=5, a bit of which the index is i is positioned in a ((i mod 5)+1)th row and a (┌i/5┐)th column in the index matrix I (e.g., a bit of which the index is 13 belongs to a ((13 mod 5)+1)=4)th row and ((┌13/5┐)=3)th column, and I(4,3)=13), and H may be expressed as in Algorithm 1 shown below.
In the disclosure, the state-indicator matrix H determined according to the index matrix I and the code parameter (N, K) may be initialized by Algorithm 1. For example, when N=16 and K+f=8, l=5, ={7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15}, and m1={9,10,12}, m2={7,11,13,14}. In addition, H determined based on the above is as in Equation 8 shown below.
In Equation 8, 0 indicates a parity bit, 1 indicates an information bit, 5 indicates a default value, and bits having a value other than 0, 1, and 5 may be either information bits (“1”) or parity bits (“0”), depending on a parity bit selection method.
In addition, a group of non-zero elements that are continuous for each PC-chain j (j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1})) may be defined as a “subblock”. A kth non-zero subblock in the jth PC-chain is Hj,k, and a total number of subblocks may be expressed as nH
In operation 720, the encoding apparatus may identify a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a parity bit candidate position preset according to an interconnection within a PC-chain or between PC-chains of a polar code, based on the number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and the number of bits to be used as parity bits.
The encoding apparatus may use bits that may be vulnerable to errors during SC/SCL decoding as parity bits so that single-parity-check pre-coding may be applied. In this case, the bits vulnerable to errors (weak-bits) are bits that may significantly affect a minimum code distance and the number of codewords having a minimum weight, and mainly have a minimum weight (i.e., dmin).
The encoding apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure apply different various selection methods according to a magnitude relationship between the number (f) of bits to be used as parity bits and the number of weak-bits from among the bits in the set . For example, when the number of weak-bits is greater than the number (f) of bits to be used as parity bits (i.e., f≤|m1|), it is a matter of selecting f from among all weak-bits, whereas, when the number of weak-bits is less than f, (i.e., f≤|m1|), the matter may be transformed into a problem of selecting all weak-bits and additionally selecting parity bits from among second weak-bits. In an embodiment of the disclosure, an adaptive parity bit selection method for each case is presented.
Hereinafter, four steps of selecting the f bits from among weak-bits when the number of weak-bits is greater than the number (f) of bits to be used as parity bits are described in detail. The four steps to be described below may be sequentially performed, and when the number of selected parity bits reaches f while the steps are in progress, the progress of the steps for selecting parity bits may be terminated.
Step 1. Removal of Unprotected Weak-Bits
A bit having the largest index from among weak-bits in the last subblock (e.g., a group of consecutive non-zero elements positioned at the rearmost in the jth PC-chain,
in each PC-chain may be selected as a parity bit. To express the above mathematically, a set of weak-bits in the PC-chain may be individually defined, and an index set (Hj)weak of all weak-bits belonging to the jth PC-chain may be expressed as in Equation 9 shown below.
(Hj)weak{p∈{1,2, . . . , ┌N/l┐}|Hj(1, p)=2}(j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1}) Equation 9
When
which is the last sunblock in Hj(j∈{0, 1, . . . , l−1}, includes “2” (i.e., when a weak-bit is present), a bit in an index matrix G corresponding to the rearmost bit in the corresponding subblock may be selected as a parity bit. In other words, an index belonging to G(j+1, (Hj)weak(|(Hj)weak|)) corresponding to a kth row and a (Hj)weak(|(Hj)weak|)th column may be selected as a parity bit. This operation may be defined as a RemoveUnprotected(⋅) function, and in the RemoveUnprotected(⋅) function, a parity bit selection may be performed according to Algorithm 2 shown below.
In Algorithm 2, is an index set of parity bits (specifically, bits belonging to parity group 2) and may be continuously updated by a parity bit selection algorithm in a state of being initialized by =Ø.
Step 2. Multi Weak-Bit Removal
Step 2 is a process performed after the parity bit selection in Step 1, and a matrix H=[H0T H1T . . . Hl−1T]T (Hi updated by Algorithm 2 may use a row vector and the set . When it is assumed that uk and uk+l are information bits that are weak-bits, and uk+2l is selected as a parity bit, when an error occurs in both uk and uk+l, uk+2l(=uk⊕uk+l) may not normally perform a function of a parity bit. Further, when a greater number of weak-bits (i.e., uk, uk+l, uk+2l are information bits that are weak-bits, and uk+3l is a parity bit) is not selected as parity bits, an even number of bit errors occur, and thus, a probability that the parity bit cannot function normally increases. Thus, in the disclosure, a bit having low reliability in a subblock including a number of weak-bits may be selected as a parity bit.
In addition, a parity bit may be selected by considering the effect of error propagation. Due to the design characteristics of a polar code, large bit dependency may exist with a 2t (t=0,1, . . . n) spacing. In other words, an error in the ith bit may affect the probability of an error occurring in a (i+2t)th bit (error propagation). Thus, in Step 2, priority is given to parity bit selection by considering various structures inside/outside the PC-chain.
First of all, the encoding apparatus may search for a parity bit candidate group of type A through Algorithm 3-1 (RemoveMultiA(⋅) function).
Referring to a pseudo code for Algorithm 3-A and type A shown in
When || updated through the RemoveMultiA(⋅) function reaches f, no further selection is performed, and the parity selection algorithm may be terminated. When the updated || fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may search for a parity bit candidate group of type B through a RemoveMultiB(⋅) function of Algorithm 3-B.
Referring to a pseudo code for Algorithm 3-B and type B shown in
When the number of candidates obtained by using Algorithm 3-B is less than or equal to a value (i.e., f−||)) obtained by subtracting a total number of parity bits to be selected by the number of bits selected through Algorithm 2 and Algorithm 3-A, the encoding apparatus may select all of the bits selected by using Algorithm 3-B as parity bits. When the number of candidates obtained by using Algorithm 3-A is greater than the value (i.e., f−||)) obtained by subtracting the total number of parity bits to be selected by the number of bits selected by using Algorithm 2 and Algorithm 3-A, the encoding apparatus may determine that priority of a bit having low polarization reliability from among the selected candidate bits is high.
The encoding apparatus may update an element value in the state-indicator matrix H corresponding to the bits selected through Algorithm 3-B to 0, and also update .
When || updated through a RemoveMultiC(⋅) function reaches f, no further selection is performed, and the parity bit selection algorithm may be terminated. When the updated || fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may search for a parity bit candidate group of type C through Algorithm 3-C.
The encoding apparatus may search for a type-C parity bit candidate group through the RemoveMultiC(⋅) function of Algorithm 3-C. When a parity bit offsetting the effect of error propagation and a plurality of weak-bits at the same time is selected through Algorithm 3-A and Algorithm 3-B, in Algorithm 3C, a weak-bit in a subblock including a plurality of weak-bits may be selected as a parity bit.
In this case, priority may be determined in an order of the number of weak-bits in the subblock including weak-bits, a length of the corresponding subblock, and reliability (e.g., polarization weight) of the corresponding bit. First, an index set of bits having “2” in the state-indicator matrix H may be defined as B, and sets of the number of weak-bits in a subblock corresponding to these bits, a length of the subblock, and reliability (e.g., polarization weight) of each of the bits may be defined as S, L, P. In this case, the encoding apparatus may define M having [BT, ST, LT, PT]T as a matrix and sort columns of M in descending order. In other words, the encoding apparatus may sort the plurality of weak bits in descending order from the largest number. When the number of weak-bits is the same, the encoding apparatus may locally sort the columns of M in descending order of the length of the subblocks, and may select a bit having the lowest reliability from among them as a parity bit. After performing this parity bit selection process once, and H may be updated.
When the updated || fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may perform Step 3 and select an additional parity bit.
Step 3. Minimum Protection Guarantee: Parity Insertion to Each PC Chain
The number of bits selected as parity bits in each PC-chain through Steps 1 and 2 is described as n(i) (i=0,1, . . . , l−1). In this case, when
(i.e., a predetermined number of parity bits are not yet selected) and (∃j)n(j)=0 is satisfied, the encoding apparatus may select a weak-bit in the jth PC-chain as a parity bit. This is to consider weaknesses of bits in each PC-chain, and to strengthen an overall protection level by selecting at least one weak-bit in each PC-chain as a parity bit.
Because the process of Step 3 is performed when a subblock including a plurality of weak-bits is not present, the greater the length of a subblock including a weak-bit in the corresponding PC-chain, the higher the selection priority, and when lengths of subblocks are the same, the lower the polarization reliability, the higher the selection priority. This may be expressed as Algorithm 4.
= ∪ {l × (temp1 − 1) + j}
{Hj}weak(j∈{0,1, . . . , l−1}) is an index set of positions of weak-bits in each PC-chain defined as {Hj}weak={p∈{1,2, . . . , ┌N/l┐}|Hj(1,p)=2}. When it is assumed that a length of a subblock corresponding to a bit at the first position in {Hj}weak and polarization reliability (e.g., polarization weight) of the bit are len({Hj}weak(1)) and PWN({H
An UpdateMatrixH(⋅) function is a function for obtaining H which is updated by a changed parity bit index set, and is shown in Algorithm 5. Meanwhile, the update of H according to Algorithm 5 may be used to update H in each algorithm (for example, Algorithms 1, 2, 3-A, 3-B, and 3-C) in Steps 1 and 2 described above.
When the updated || fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may perform Step 4 and select an additional parity bit.
Step 4. Error Propagation Mitigation
When the number of parity bits selected through Steps 1 to 3 is still less than f, the encoding apparatus may select an additional parity bit by using Algorithm 6 in the process of Step 4.
= ∪ {temp(index(1)), . . . , temp(index(A))}
When a bit having an index of i and a bit having an index is (i+1) are all weak-bits, the encoding apparatus may select the bit i as a parity bit in order to reduce the effect of error propagation. When
(i.e., an element value in the state-indicator matrix H corresponding to a bit having an index of
(i.e., an element value in the state-indicator matrix H corresponding to a bit having an index of (i+1) have the same value of “2” (i.e., weak-bit), temp and PWtemp may be an index set of bits having an index of i and a polarization reliability set of the bits having the index of i, respectively. The encoding apparatus may select a bit corresponding to the lowest value side of PWtemp as a parity bit. For example, when A bits in Step 4 are selected as parity bits, the encoding apparatus may select bits corresponding to A values having the lowest polarization reliability. Algorithm 6 described above may be defined through a MitigateErProp(⋅) function.
When the number (i.e., |m1|) of bits (i.e., weak-bits) having a minimum weight in the set is greater than the number (f) of parity bits to be selected, the encoding apparatus according to an embodiment may sequentially apply Steps 1 to 4 above, to perform a parity bit selection. When the number of selected parity bits reaches the number (f) of parity bits to be selected by the encoding apparatus in a process of sequentially applying Steps 1 to 4, the encoding apparatus may terminate selection of parity bits. Hereinafter, a method of selecting a parity bit by sequentially applying Algorithm 7 to Steps 1 to 4 is described.
When the number (i.e., |m1|) of bits (i.e. weak-bits) having a minimum weight in the set is greater than the number (f) of parity bits to be selected, the encoding apparatus may select f out of the |m1| weak-bits may be selected based on Algorithm 7.
Referring to Algorithm 7 shown above, the encoding apparatus may first initialize the index set of parity bits to be selected to =Ø, and update and the state-indicator matrix H according to the steps described above. Specifically, the encoding apparatus may add, to via the RemoveUnprotected(⋅) function of Step 1, a bit having the largest index from among bits having a weak-bit in the last subblock for each PC-chain. In addition, the encoding apparatus may update H based on index information of the bits corresponding to .
When the number of bits selected through the RemoveUnprotected(⋅) function (lines: 2-4) fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may search for a candidate for bits which are included in a subblock having a plurality of weak-bits and are structurally interconnected with the effect of error propagation through the RemoveMultiA(⋅) function (lines: 5-7) of case 2, and add bits corresponding to some or all of the candidates to according to a condition. When the number of bits selected up to case 2 reaches f, the encoding apparatus may stop updating of and H and terminate all parity bit selection algorithms.
When the number of selected parity bits fails to reach f, the encoding apparatus may ultimately select f parity bits through functions of case 3 (RemoveMultiB(⋅), a pseudo code of Algorithm 7, lines: 8-10), case 4 (RemoveMultiC(⋅), a pseudo code of Algorithm 7, lines 11-13), case 5 (GuaranteeMinProtection(⋅), a pseudo code of Algorithm 7, lines: 14-16), and case 6 (MitigateErProp(⋅), a pseudo code of Algorithm 7, lines: 17-19) functions.
When the number (i.e., |m1|) of bits (i.e., weak bits) having a minimum weight in the set is less than the number (f) of parity bits to be selected, the encoding apparatus may select a total of |m1| weak-bits and further select k (0<k≤f−|m1|) second weak-bits. In this case, the encoding apparatus may select k second weak-bits based on Algorithm 8-1 and Algorithm 8-2.
First, the encoding apparatus may select all weak-bits (the number of weak-bits: f1(=|m1|)). In addition, the encoding apparatus may select f2=└0.75(f−f1)┘ bits for the purpose of unprotected bit selection, and then, when f2≠0 or when there is a subblock including multiple second weak-bits from the updated H, further select only one second weak-bit.
When f>|m1|, Algorithm 8-2 shown below shows a parity bit selection method based on V metric.
With respect to each of PC-chains (PC-chain i: 0≤i≤l−1), the encoding apparatus may analyze profiles of second weak-bits in the rearmost subblock
First, the encoding apparatus may store all bit indices corresponding to the second weak-bits in
in a space of (temp1)i (0≤i≤l−1). Thereafter, the encoding apparatus may identify a second weak-bit other than a second weak-bit positioned first from among at least one second weak-bit. In other words, the encoding apparatus may exclude all bits in which a value of l1 corresponding to each second weak-bit is 0 (i.e., (temp1)i=(temp1)i\{bit with l1=0}). When there is a number of second weak-bits in (temp1)i updated through the process described above, the encoding apparatus may determine a second weak-bit having the lowest V metric value (V=|l1−l2|) as a parity bit, in order to divide a distribution of weak-bits in the subblock as evenly as possible. The V metric may be a balancing parameter which is determined based on positions of second weak-bits in a subblock. When this process is performed, a maximum of 1 bit remains in each (temp1)i, and the encoding apparatus may store an index union of these bits in temp1 ((temp1=∪(temp1)i)).
However, priorities may also exist for these bits. Accordingly, the encoding apparatus may give higher priority as the number of second weak-bits in a subblock to which the second weak-bits included in the set temp1 belong increases, and when the number of second weak-bits in the subblock is the same, higher priority is given to a bit having lower reliability. For example, when the numbers of second weak-bits in a subblock including second weak-bits respectively having indices are a, b, and c are d, d, and e (d<e), respectively and the polarization reliability thereof are f, g, and h (f<g), respectively, priority may be determined as c, a, and b.
When the number of bits selected through the process described above is greater than or equal to f2, bits having an index of temp1(1:f2) may be selected as parity bits (a pseudo code of Algorithm 8-2, lines 39-44). On the other hand, when the number of selected bits is less than f2, all bits in temp1 are selected as parity bits, and the process proceeds to the next step (a pseudo code of Algorithm 8-2, lines 37-38).
This time, the encoding apparatus may analyze profiles of second weak-bits in a subblock
which is second to last. This may be performed in a similar manner to Algorithm 8-2. Similar to the above, the encoding apparatus may store all bit indices corresponding to the second weak-bits in
in the space of (temp2)i (0≤i≤l−1). Thereafter, the encoding apparatus may exclude all bits in which the value of l1 corresponding to each of the second weak-bits is 0 (i.e., (temp2)i=(temp2)i\{bit with l1=0}). When there are a number of second weak-bits in (temp2)i updated through this process, the encoding apparatus may determine a bit having the largest index as a parity bit. When the process is performed, a maximum of 1 bit remains in (temp2)i, and the encoding apparatus may store an index union of these bits in (temp2) ((temp2)=∪(temp2)i).
Priority is also given to these bits, and thus, higher priority may be given as the number of second weak-bits in each subblock to which each of the second weak-bits in (temp2) belong increases, and when the number of second weak-bits in each of the subblock is the same, higher priority is given to a second weak bit, in (temp2), having lower reliability. When the number of bits selected through the process above is greater than or equal to (f2−|temp1|), the encoding apparatus may bits having an index of temp2(1:f2−|temp1|) as parity bits. On the other hand, when less than (f2−temp1), the encoding apparatus may select all bits in (temp2) as parity bits and proceeds to the next step.
When (f2−|temp1|−|temp2|) is still greater than 0, the encoding apparatus goes back to the rearmost subblock
and sequentially select (f2−|temp1|−|temp2|) bits from the bits having the lowest reliability from among second weak-bits in each PC-chain, so as to terminate selection of f2 bits. An element value in the state-indicator matrix H corresponding to parity bits selected through the process described as may be updated to 0, and the parity bit index set may be updated.
Lastly, in a case in which f2≠0 as indicated in Algorithm 8-1 and one or more subblocks including a number of second weak-bits remain, the RemoveMultiA(⋅), RemoveMultiB(⋅), and RemoveMultiC(⋅) functions may be sequentially applied, and when 1 bit is selected, the encoding apparatus may terminate a process of selecting a parity bit from among the second weak-bits.
Referring to
In operation 740, the encoding apparatus may obtain a polar code including the identified parity bit. The encoding apparatus may transmit a signal including the obtained polar code to a decoding apparatus. Meanwhile, before transmitting the obtained polar code, the encoding apparatus may transmit, to the decoding apparatus, information about the selected parity bit or an index of the selected parity bit. According to another embodiment, the encoding apparatus may transmit, to the decoding apparatus, information about the selected parity bit or an index of the selected parity bit together with the obtained polar code.
Referring to
First, the encoding apparatus may select a weak-bit having the largest index in the rearmost subblock of each PC-chain as a parity bit, through Step 1. In other words, the encoding apparatus may select a bit having an index of 120 in PC-chain 0, having an index of 116 in PC-chain 1, having an index of 113 in PC-chain 3, and having an index of 114 in PC-chain 4 as a parity bit. In PC-chain 2, a weak-bit is not present in the last subblock, and thus, PC-chain 2 is not selected. Consequently, an index set 1 of parity bits selected through Step 1 is 1={120,116,114,113}, and the encoding apparatus may update an element value in the state-indicator matrix H corresponding to the corresponding bits may be updated to “0”. (Up to present, =1={120,116,114,113}).
Next, the encoding apparatus may determine a parity bit set through Step 2 by using the updated state-indicator matrix H. Referring to
When the number of parity bits selected up to present fails to reach the number of parity bits to be used, the encoding apparatus may further select a parity bit through Step 3. In Step 3, “102” of PC-chain 2 in which not a single weak-bit is selected may be selected as a parity bit in terms of overall protection-level enhancement of each of the PC-chains. A subblock including 92 and 102 have the same length of 2, and 102 having lower polarization reliability may be selected as a parity bit, and 3={102}. The encoding apparatus may update a value of H(3,21) corresponding to a bit having an index of 102 to 0 (i.e., =1∪2∪3={120,116,114,113,101,102}).
Because the number of bits selected up to present is 6, the encoding apparatus may apply a parity bit selection method (i.e., Step 4) considering the effect of error propagation according Step 4 may be applied. From among a structure where an index is 89-90 (H(5,18)=H(1,18)=2 in the matrix H) and a structure where an index is 105-106 (H(1,21)=H(2,22)=2 within the matrix H), the encoding apparatus may select 89 having lower polarization reliability as a parity bit. In other words, 4={89} (=1∪2∪3∪4={120,116,114,113,101,102,89}). In the related art in which polarization reliability is used as the only parity bit selection criterion, an index set of selected parity bits is {120,116,114,108,113,106,92}. Parity bit selection according to the disclosure and parity bit selection according to the related art have 3 bit difference. However, as a result of simulation, it may be identified a performance gain of 0.15 dB occurs in terms of SNR [dB] satisfying a BLER=10−3.
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The encoding apparatus may select a weak-bit having the largest index in the last subblock in each PC-chain as a parity bit through the RemoveUnprotected(⋅) function. In other words, the encoding apparatus may select indices “100” in PC-chain 0, “112” in PC-chain 2, “98” in PC-chain 3, and “104” in PC-chain, and accordingly, 1={112,104,100,98} (Up to present, =1={112,104,100,98}).
In addition, the encoding apparatus may select weak-bits in a subblock including a plurality of weak-bits through Step 2. The encoding apparatus may select, through the RemoveMultiB(⋅) function, 81 at an intersection in a structure in which indices are 76-81-82 (H(2,16)=H(2,17)=H(3,17)=2), and update a value of H(2,17) to 0. Thereafter, a structure including 82-97 and 74-84 remains in the index set. The encoding apparatus may select a bit having lower polarization reliability in each subblock as a parity bit through the RemoveMultiC(⋅) function, and through this, 82 and 74 may be selected as parity bits. (Up to present, =1∪2={112,104,100,98,82,81,74}).
An index set of parity bits selected through Steps 1 and 2 is =1∪2={112,104,100,98,81,82,74}, and when the number of selected parity bits reaches the number (f=7) of parity bits to be used by the encoding apparatus, the encoding apparatus may terminate a step for selecting a parity bit. Meanwhile, the index set of parity bits selected according to the related art is {112,104,100,88,98,84,97}. Parity bit selection according to the disclosure and parity bit selection according to the related art results in a 3 bit difference. However, as a result of simulation, a performance gain of 0.13 dB occurs in terms of SNR [dB] achieving a BLER of 10−3.
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First, the encoding apparatus may select all weak-bits in the set (0={112}).
Next, the encoding apparatus may store, in (temp1)i, bits having the lowest V metric where l1 is not zero, from among second weak-bits in the last subblock
in each PC-chain. Indices of the stored bits are “120” in PC-chain 1, “116” in PC-chain 2, “113” in PC-chain 3, and “114” in PC-chain 4. In “102” in PC-chain 2, V=0, and thus, “102” in PC-chain 2 may not be selected. An index union of these bits is (temp1)={120,116,114,113}, and priority determined by considering the number of second weak-bits in a subblock including the corresponding bits and polarization reliability of each of the bits is as in (temp1)←sort((temp1))={116, 113, 120, 114}. Because f2=|temp1|, the encoding apparatus may select all second weak-bits included in (temp1) as parity bits.
When └0.75(f−|m1|)┘≠0 and a subblock including a plurality of weak-bits remains even after the second weak-bit selection process described above, the encoding apparatus may further select one bit in a subblock including a plurality of second weak-bits.
A second weak-bit satisfying a condition in the RemoveMultiA(⋅) function does not exist. However, second weak-bit candidates satisfying a condition in the RemoveMultiB(⋅) function exist, and accordingly, “85” having the lowest polarization reliability from among the second weak-bit candidates satisfying the condition in the RemoveMultiB(⋅) function may be added to . In other words, the index set of parity bits within group 1 selected in the embodiment of
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In operation 1310, the UE may transmit, to the BS, a message inquiring whether a PC polar code is applied.
In operation 1320, the BS may transmit, to the UE, a message including a response to whether the PC polar code is applied.
In operation 1330, the UE may transmit information about a parity bit identified according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of a polar code and within PC-chains of the polar code.
When the UE according to an embodiment of the disclosure receives a response that a PC polar code is applied from the BS, the UE may identify a parity bit according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of a polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code according to an embodiment of the disclosure. The UE may transmit information about the identified parity bit to the BS.
In operation 1340, the BS may transmit a message responding that the information about reception of the parity bit identified according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code.
In operation 1350, the UE and the BS may design a PC polar code according to the encoding method according to an embodiment of the disclosure, and decode the designed PC polar code. For example, when the UE transmits a polar code to the BS, the BS may decode the polar code based on the information about the parity bit transmitted in operation 1330 described above.
However, this is an only an example, and the BS may determine parity bit index sets (and ) appropriate for a code parameter and transmit the determined index sets to the UE, and the UE may decode the polar code received from the BS based on the received parity bit index sets.
When the parity bit selection method according to an embodiment of the disclosure is applied, similar or excellent decoding (i.e., BLER) performance as compared to the related art may be ensured in an overall code parameter area, and thus, the related-art polar code applied to next-generation communication, such as beyond 5G and 6G, may be replaced and various scenarios may be supported.
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The transceiver 1410 may perform functions for transmitting and receiving signals via a wireless channel. For example, the transceiver 1410 may perform a conversion function between a baseband signal and a bitstream according to a physical layer standard of the system. For example, for signal transmission, the transceiver 1410 may generate complex symbols by encoding and modulating a bitstream for transmission. For signal reception, the transceiver 1410 may reconstruct a transmitted bitstream by demodulating and decoding the received baseband signal. Furthermore, the transceiver 1410 may perform up-conversion on the baseband signal to a radio frequency (RF) band signal and transmit the resultant signal through an antenna, and may perform down-conversion on an RF band signal received through the antenna to a baseband signal. For example, the transceiver 1410 may include a transmit filter, a receive filter, an amplifier, a mixer, an oscillator, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), etc.
The processor 1420 may control overall operations of the encoding apparatus 1400. For example, the processor 1420 may transmit and receive a signal via the transceiver 1410. In addition, the processor 1420 records and reads data on or from the memory 1430. The processor 1420 may perform functions of a protocol stack required from the communication standards. To do so, the processor 1420 may include at least one processor or microprocessor or may be a part of a processor. According to an embodiment, the processor 1420 may include at least one processor. Also, according to an embodiment, a part of the transceiver 1410 and/or the processor 1420 may be called a communication processor (CP).
The processor 1420 may control so that operations are performed according to at least one of the various embodiments related to the encoding method described above. For example, the processor 1420 may obtain state-indicator information for indicating a state of each bit based on an index set of bits included in a polar code. In addition, the processor 1420 may identify a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a preset parity candidate position as a parity bit according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of a polar code and between PC-chains of the polar code, based on the number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and the number of bits to be used as parity bits. When the number of parity bits identified according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of a polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code corresponds to the number of bits to be used as parity bits, the processor 1420 may terminate identification of a weak-bit or a second weak-bit as a parity bit. The processor 1420 may obtain a polar code including the identified parity bit.
In addition, the processor 1420 may transmit a polar code including the identified parity bit via the transceiver 1410.
The memory 1430 may store data such as basic programs, application programs, and configuration information for the operations of the encoding apparatus 1400. The memory 1430 may include a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, or a combination of the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory. The memory 1430 may provide data stored at a request of the processor 1420.
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The transceiver 1510 may perform functions for transmitting and receiving signals via a wireless channel. For example, the transceiver 1510 may perform a conversion function between a baseband signal and a bitstream according to a physical layer standard of the system. For example, for signal transmission, the transceiver 1510 may generate complex symbols by encoding and modulating a bitstream for transmission. For signal reception, the transceiver 1510 may reconstruct a transmitted bitstream by demodulating and decoding the received baseband signal. Furthermore, the transceiver 1510 may perform up-conversion on the baseband signal to an RF band signal and transmit the resultant signal through an antenna, and may perform down-conversion on an RF band signal received through the antenna to a baseband signal. For example, the transceiver 1510 may include a transmit filter, a receive filter, an amplifier, a mixer, an oscillator, a DAC, an ADC, etc.
The processor 1520 may control overall operations of the decoding apparatus 1500. For example, the processor 1520 may transmit and receive a signal via the transceiver 1510. In addition, the processor 1520 records and reads data on or from the memory 1530. The processor 1520 may perform functions of a protocol stack required from the communication standards. To do so, the processor 1520 may include at least one processor or microprocessor or may be a part of a processor. According to an embodiment, the processor 1520 may include at least one processor. Also, according to an embodiment, a part of the transceiver 1510 and/or the processor 1520 may be called a CP.
The processor 1520 may decode a polar code including the parity bit identified according to the decoding method according to an embodiment of the disclosure described above. For example, the processor 1520 may obtain state-indicator information indicating a state of each bit based on an index set of bits included in a polar code received from the encoding apparatus. In addition, the processor 1520 may identify a weak-bit or a second weak-bit corresponding to a preset parity candidate position as a parity bit according to an interconnection within a PC-chain of a polar code or between PC-chains of the polar code, based on the number of weak-bits determined according to the state-indicator information and the number of bits to be used as parity bits. When the number of parity bits identified according to the interconnection within the PC-chain of the polar code and between the PC-chains of the polar code corresponds to the number of bits to be used parity bits, the processor 1520 may terminate identification of a weak-bit or a second weak-bit as a parity bit. The processor 1520 may obtain an information bit by decoding the polar code based on the identified parity bit.
In addition, the processor 1520 may transmit the polar code including the identified parity bit via the transceiver 1510.
The memory 1530 may store data such as basic programs, application programs, and configuration information for the operations of the decoding apparatus 1500. The memory 1530 may include a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, or a combination of the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory. The memory 1530 may provide data stored at a request of the processor 1520.
A machine-readable storage medium may be provided in a form of a non-transitory storage medium. Here, the “non-transitory storage medium” only denotes a tangible device and does not contain a signal (for example, electromagnetic waves). This term does not distinguish a case where data is stored in the storage medium semi-permanently and a case where the data is stored in the storage medium temporarily. For example, the “non-transitory storage medium” may include a buffer where data is temporarily stored.
According to an embodiment, a method according to various embodiments disclosed in the present specification may be provided by being included in a computer program product. The computer program products are products that can be traded between sellers and buyers. The computer program product may be distributed in a form of machine-readable storage medium (for example, a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM)), or distributed (for example, downloaded or uploaded) through an application store (for example, PlayStore™) or directly or online between two user devices (for example, smart phones). In the case of online distribution, at least a part of the computer program product (for example, a downloadable application) may be at least temporarily generated or temporarily stored in a machine-readable storage medium, such as a server of a manufacturer, a server of an application store, or a memory of a relay server.
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of a polar code according to an embodiment serve to assist parity bits, which are appropriately arranged, to select a proper decoding path in a continuous removal list decoding process during decoding of the polar code.
While the disclosure has been shown and described with reference to various embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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