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From sequential decoding to channel polarization and back again

Information Theory 2019-09-10 v3 math.IT

Abstract

This note is a written and extended version of the Shannon Lecture I gave at 2019 International Symposium on Information Theory. It gives an account of the original ideas that motivated the development of polar coding and discusses some new ideas for exploiting channel polarization more effectively in order to improve the performance of polar codes.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09594,
  title  = {From sequential decoding to channel polarization and back again},
  author = {Erdal Arıkan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09594},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

10 pages, 14 figures. To appear in IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter. Expanded version of a lecture presented at the IEEE 2019 International Symposium on Information Theory, 10 July 2019, Paris

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