Polar Code Block Length Selection for 5G Encoder Complexity

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Solution Overview

Problem

The dynamic adjustment of code block length in polar coding for 5G communications poses challenges for hardware implementation due to increased complexity and delay, making it difficult to achieve efficient spectral efficiency and reliability.

Innovation Solution

A data processing method and apparatus that determines a fixed code block length N0 based on data characteristics and preset parameters, facilitating polar encoding and transmission with reduced dynamic changes, thereby simplifying hardware implementation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the code block length is dynamically adjusted according to information bit size and code rate, then the spectral efficiency and reliability are improved, but the hardware implementation complexity and delay increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission reliabilityVSAvoidencoder complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by enabling the code block length to be dynamically adjusted according to information bit size and code rate requirements. The encoder can adaptively change the code block length within a predetermined range, allowing the system to optimize spectral efficiency and reliability for different transmission scenarios while managing hardware complexity through controlled adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If the code block length is dynamically adjusted, then the information transmission reliability is improved, but the encoding delay increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission reliabilityVSAvoidencoding delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic code block length adjustment that adapts to different transmission requirements. By allowing the code block length to vary within a predetermined range based on information bit size and code rate, the system can optimize reliability while managing encoding delay through adaptive rather than purely static or fully dynamic approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If the code block length is increased to improve spectral efficiency, then the spectral efficiency is improved, but the hardware implementation becomes impossible due to limited capability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectral efficiencyVSAvoidhardware implementation feasibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by introducing a predetermined range for code block length and dynamically adjusting the code block length within this range based on information bit size and code rate. This allows the system to optimize spectral efficiency by selecting appropriate code block lengths without exceeding hardware implementation capabilities, as the range is predetermined to be feasible for the hardware.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11909417B2Data processing method and device
Publication Date: 2024.02.20 ZTE CORP
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AI summary

A data processing method and apparatus. The data process method includes: determining, by a transmitting node, a code block length N0 for encoding an information bit sequence to be transmitted according to a data characteristic for representing the information bit sequence to be transmitted and a preset parameter corresponding to the data characteristic; performing, by the transmitting node, polar encoding on the information bit sequence to be transmitted according to the code block length N0; and transmitting, by the transmitting node, a code block obtained through the polar encoding to a receiving node.