Polar code for future 60 GHz millimeter-wave communications

Abstract

With high operating frequencies and high emission power, 60 GHz millimeter communications may suffer seriously from realistic hardware impairments. Among this, nonlinear power amplifier (PA) will significantly degrade its transmission performance. In order to decrease the bits error rate (BER) of 60 GHz millimeter communications, in this investigation a promising polar coding scheme is proposed. Based on the derivation of the general formulas of polar code, a new construction scheme for polar code is proposed. This designed polar code is further applied to 60 GHz systems with nonlinear PA. Experimental simulations verified the proposed coding scheme, which may significantly promote the transmission performance of 60 GHz communications. It is also demonstrated that the proposed polar coding scheme will surpass the popular LDPC code, which hence provides a great promise to practical use.