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The development, operation and performance of the 5G polar codes

The development, operation and performance of the 5G polar codes
The development, operation and performance of the 5G polar codes
Since their inception in 2008, polar codes have been shown to offer near-capacity error correction performance across a wide range of block lengths and coding rates. Owing to this, polar codes have been selected to provide channel coding in the control channels of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio (NR). The operation of the 3GPP NR polar codes is specified in the 3GPP standard TS 38.212, together with schemes for code block segmentation, Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) attachment, CRC scrambling, CRC interleaving, frozen and parity check bit insertion, sub-block interleaving, bit selection, channel interleaving and code block concatenation. The configuration of these components is different for the uplink, broadcast and downlink control channels. However, the lack of visualisations and diagrammatic explanations in TS 38.212 limits the accessibility of the standard to new readers. This motivates the aims of the paper, which provides detailed tutorials on the operation and motivation of the components of the 3GPP NR polar codes, as well as surveys of the 3GPP discussions that led to their specification. Furthermore, we comprehensively characterize the error correction and error detection performance of the 3GPP NR polar codes in the uplink, broadcast and downlink control channels.
1553-877X
96-122
Kaykac Egilmez, Zeynep Burcin
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Xiang, Luping
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Maunder, Robert
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Kaykac Egilmez, Zeynep Burcin
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Xiang, Luping
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Maunder, Robert
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Kaykac Egilmez, Zeynep Burcin, Xiang, Luping, Maunder, Robert and Hanzo, Lajos (2019) The development, operation and performance of the 5G polar codes. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 22 (1), 96-122. (doi:10.1109/COMST.2019.2960746).

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Since their inception in 2008, polar codes have been shown to offer near-capacity error correction performance across a wide range of block lengths and coding rates. Owing to this, polar codes have been selected to provide channel coding in the control channels of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio (NR). The operation of the 3GPP NR polar codes is specified in the 3GPP standard TS 38.212, together with schemes for code block segmentation, Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) attachment, CRC scrambling, CRC interleaving, frozen and parity check bit insertion, sub-block interleaving, bit selection, channel interleaving and code block concatenation. The configuration of these components is different for the uplink, broadcast and downlink control channels. However, the lack of visualisations and diagrammatic explanations in TS 38.212 limits the accessibility of the standard to new readers. This motivates the aims of the paper, which provides detailed tutorials on the operation and motivation of the components of the 3GPP NR polar codes, as well as surveys of the 3GPP discussions that led to their specification. Furthermore, we comprehensively characterize the error correction and error detection performance of the 3GPP NR polar codes in the uplink, broadcast and downlink control channels.

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Accepted/In Press date: December 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 December 2019
Published date: 18 December 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 436696
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/436696
ISSN: 1553-877X
PURE UUID: 50429dd2-87b6-4d67-b17a-013123a650d8
ORCID for Luping Xiang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1465-6708
ORCID for Robert Maunder: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7944-2615
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 20 Dec 2019 18:31
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 05:37

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Author: Zeynep Burcin Kaykac Egilmez
Author: Luping Xiang ORCID iD
Author: Robert Maunder ORCID iD
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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