All the codeword symbols in polar codes have the same SER under the SC decoder
Information Theory
2023-07-18 v3 math.IT
Abstract
We consider polar codes constructed from the kernel over a finite field , where is a power of a prime number , and satisfies that . We prove that for any -symmetric memoryless channel, any code length, and any code dimension, all the codeword symbols in such polar codes have the same symbol error rate (SER) under the successive cancellation (SC) decoder.
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@article{arxiv.2203.14184,
title = {All the codeword symbols in polar codes have the same SER under the SC decoder},
author = {Guodong Li and Min Ye and Sihuang Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14184},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
We extend the results in the previous version to polar codes over finite fields. Previously, we only proved the results for binary polar codes