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POLAR BINARY CODES & SUCCESSIVE CANCELLATION DECODING: Windows 11 Personal Computer-Based Simulations of Polar Coded Signaling over a Memoryless Channel (MLC)
by Darrell A. Nolta
December 8, 2025
The simulated Bit Error Rate (BER) [Bit Error Probability (P
b) ] results for the N = 256 K = 128 and N = 512 K = 256 5G NR Polar Coded BPSK Signaling over a Memoryless Channel (MLC) are shown below in
Figure 1, 2, and 3.
For this Channel Polarization study, we have two cases: 1) using Consecutive Non-UPO (UPO: Universal Partial Order/Universal Reliability Sequence) Bit-Coordinate Channel-to-Frozen Bit assignment; and 2) using the 5G NR UPO standard to specify the UPO Bit-Coordinate Channel-to-Frozen Bit assignment.
These results were obtain from
AdvDCSMT1DCSS (T1) Version 2 5GNR LDPCC PC simulations that were run on a
Windows 11 Personal Computer. The other BER results (UnCoded, N = 8, 64, & 128 5G NR Polar Codes) were obtained from T1 based simulations that were run on a Windows 7 Personal Computer.
From
Figure 1, 2, and 3, one can clearly observe the 'Channel Polarization' phenomenon.
In
Figure 3 (the case of the use of the 5G NR UPO standard Bit-Coordinate Channel-to-Frozen Bit assignment), we observe that as we increase the CodeWord Length (BlockLength) N, the stronger the Channel Polarization phenomenon becomes (i.e,, the BER curve's E
b/N
0 value corresponding to P
b zero value shifts toward the small portion of the E
b/N
0 dB axis).
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.