Polar Codes' Simplicity, Random Codes' Durability
Information Theory
2020-12-14 v1 math.IT
Abstract
Over any discrete memoryless channel, we build codes such that: for one, their block error probabilities and code rates scale like random codes'; and for two, their encoding and decoding complexities scale like polar codes'. Quantitatively, for any constants such that , we construct a sequence of error correction codes with block length approaching infinity, block error probability , code rate less than the Shannon capacity, and encoding and decoding complexity per code block. The putative codes take uniform -ary messages for sender's choice of prime . The putative codes are optimal in the following manner: Should , no such codes exist for generic channels regardless of alphabet and complexity.
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@article{arxiv.1912.08995,
title = {Polar Codes' Simplicity, Random Codes' Durability},
author = {Hsin-Po Wang and Iwan Duursma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08995},
year = {2020}
}
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55 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables