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In this paper, we present an optimal metric function on average, which leads to a significantly low decoding computation while maintaining the superiority of the polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes error-correction performance. With our proposed metric function, the PAC codes decoding computation is comparable to the conventional convolutional codes (CC) sequential decoding. Moreover, simulation results show an improvement in the low-rate PAC codes error-correction performance when using our proposed metric function. We prove that choosing the polarized cutoff rate as the metric functions bias value reduces the probability of the sequential decoder advancing in the wrong path exponentially with respect to the wrong path depth. We also prove that the upper bound of the PAC codes computation has a Pareto distribution; our simulation results also verify this. Furthermore, we present a scaling-bias procedure and a method of choosing threshold spacing for the search-limited sequential decoding that substantially improves the decoders average computation. Our results show that for some codes with a length of 128, the search-limited PAC codes can achieve an error-correction performance close to the error-correction performance of the polar codes under successive cancellation list decoding with a list size of 64 and CRC length of 11 with a considerably lower computation.
Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes were recently proposed and arouse the interest of the channel coding community because they were shown to approach theoretical bounds for the (128,64) code size. In this letter, we propose systematic PAC codes. Thanks to the systematic property, improvement in the bit-error rate of up to 0.2 dB is observed, while preserving the frame-error rate performance. Moreover, a genetic-algorithm based construction method targeted to approach the theoretical bound is provided. It is then shown that using the proposed construction method systematic and non-systematic PAC codes can approach the theoretical bound even for higher code sizes such as (256,128).
Performance and complexity of sequential decoding of polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes is studied. In particular, a performance and computational complexity comparison of PAC codes with 5G polar codes and convolutional codes is given. A method for bounding the complexity of sequential decoding of PAC codes is proposed.
In this paper motivated from subspace coding we introduce subspace-metric and subset-metric codes. These are coordinate-position independent pseudometrics and suitable for the folded codes introduced by Guruswami and Rudra. The half-Singleton upper bounds for linear subspace-metric and subset-metric codes are proved. Subspace distances and subset distances of codes are natural lower bounds for insdel distances of codes, and then can be used to lower bound the insertion-deletion error-correcting capabilities of codes. The problem to construct efficient insertion-deletion error-correcting codes is notorious difficult and has attracted a long-time continuous efforts. The recent breakthrough is the algorithmic construction of near-Singleton optimal rate-distance tradeoff insertion-deletion code families by B. Haeupler and A. Shahrasbi in 2017 from their synchronization string technique. However most nice codes in these recent results are not explicit though many of them can be constructed by highly efficient algorithms. Our subspace-metric and subset-metric codes can be used to construct systemic explicit well-structured insertion-deletion codes. We present some near-optimal subspace-metric and subset-metric codes from known constant dimension subspace codes. By analysing the subset distances of folded codes from evaluation codes of linear mappings, we prove that they have high subset distances and then are explicit good insertion-deletion codes
Two concatenated coding schemes incorporating algebraic Reed-Solomon (RS) codes and polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are proposed. Simulation results show that at a bit error rate of $10^{-5}$, a concatenated scheme using RS and PAC codes has more than $0.25$ dB coding gain over the NASA standard concatenation scheme, which uses RS and convolutional codes.
We derive simplified sphere-packing and Gilbert--Varshamov bounds for codes in the sum-rank metric, which can be computed more efficiently than previous ones. They give rise to asymptotic bounds that cover the asymptotic setting that has not yet been considered in the literature: families of sum-rank-metric codes whose block size grows in the code length. We also provide two genericity results: we show that random linear codes achieve almost the sum-rank-metric Gilbert--Varshamov bound with high probability. Furthermore, we derive bounds on the probability that a random linear code attains the sum-rank-metric Singleton bound, showing that for large enough extension fields, almost all linear codes achieve it.