Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

Some algorithms solve problems. This one changed civilization. From guiding satellites to securing your bank account, its influence reaches every corner of technology. It started with a simple insight ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Two cold cases that stumped Rhode Island prosecutors for decades were finally solved this week, but officials could not catch the killers in time. Debra Stone and Cynthia McKenna both died of ...

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

NEW YORK -- Authorities on Long Island believe they have closed a murder case that had been open for more than 40 years. In November 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco disappeared after she was fired ...

Prosecutors on Long Island say they’ve arrested and charged a suspect for the 1984 rape and murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco. They say a smoothie cup discarded by the suspect had DNA that matched ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Caltech have finally solved a decades-old mystery about how photosynthesis really begins. They discovered why energy inside plants flows down ...

Ohio law enforcement officials said they have identified skeletal remains discovered 36 years ago in Franklin County using DNA from a relative. The remains were found on Nov. 3, 1989, on Walcutt Road ...