Nice work, looking forward to seeing what you produce.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Johannes Demel <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey GNU Radio'ers!
>
> another week has passed. So it's time for a project update.
> This week was dedicated to channel construction. Finally, all channel
> construction algorithms work. I added a couple of convenience
> functions too.
> First, there's a command line tool 'polar_channel_construction' which
> will do channel construction according to the parameters you'll pass
> to it.
> Secondly, there's a GRC block which takes all the parameters and
> returns a dictionary with the desired parameters. Most importantly,
> <variable_name>['positions'] and <variable_name>['values'] contain the
> Numpy arrays of interest. I hope they're self-explanatory.
> For all channels but BEC, channel construction is quite a
> computationally heavy task. Thus, Z-parameters which are generated
> once for a user are saved in '~/.gnuradio/polar'. Afterwards they are
> available. If a new set of parameters is encountered, the
> corresponding z-parameters will be calculated automatically. There's a
> progress bar and everything. So you can keep track of construction
> progress.
> Z-parameters are saved in text files. A header holds all the info on
> construction parameters and.
> I worked on further integrating polar codes into FECAPI. So, now you
> can just open an example flowgraph and another flowgraph generates BER
> curves for SC decoder and SC list decoder and for comparability a
> convolutional code.
> One odd thing about FECAPI, that I noticed, is bit-to-symbol mapping.
> As far as I've seen it so far, most applications map 1 -> -1 and 0 ->
> 1, or 2 * bit - 1. FECAPI handles this the other way round. At least
> 'BER curve generator' behaves this way, so I assume that the other
> decoder blocks expect the same mapping.
>
> That's it for the week. So far, I've dealt with all aspects of polar
> codes. Now it's time to focus on VOLK optimization and algorithmic
> optimization.
>
> A little goodie at the end [3]. I uploaded a BER comparison pic to
> imgur. Be careful with absolute values though. I doubt Es/N0 is
> accurate. But it gives you an impression.
>
> More info and current project progress can be found in [1] and [2].
>
> Cheers
> Johannes
>
> [1] https://github.com/jdemel/gnuradio
> [2] https://github.com/jdemel/socis-proposal
> [3] http://i.imgur.com/QXWdSPj.jpg
>
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