Ordered-Statistics Decoding with Adaptive Gaussian Elimination Reduction for Short Codes

In this paper, we propose an efficient ordered-statistics decoding (OSD) algorithm with an adaptive Gaussian elimination (GE) reduction technique. The proposed decoder utilizes two conditions to adaptively remove GE in OSD. The first condition determines whether GE could be skipped in the OSD process by estimating the decoding error probability. Then, the second condition is utilized to identify the correct decoding result during the decoding process without GE. The proposed decoder can break the "complexity floor" in OSD decoders introduced by the overhead of GE. Simulation results advise that when compared with existing schemes in the literature, the proposed approach can significantly reduce the decoding complexity at high SNRs without any degradation in the error-correction capability.