Performance Evaluation of Polar Channel Coding on a Practical VLC Link: A Comparison Study

In this paper, we investigate the performance of Polar codes, Turbo and Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes on a practical Visible Light Communication (VLC) link, in terms of the Bit-Error-Ratio (BER) vs. SNR separately. The considered parameters are the number of iterations in Turbo and LDPC and list size in the Polar codes respectively. Then, we compare three methods together with the best value of parameters of each one. To give a fair comparison, we use the same length of code as input and the rate of all codes is 1/2. The results show that the Polar codes perform better than Turbo and LDPC codes on VLC based applications.