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It is shown that polar coding schemes achieve the known achievable rate regions for several multi-terminal communications problems including lossy distributed source coding, multiple access channels and multiple descriptions coding. The…
The definition of polar codes given by Arikan is explicit, but the construction complexity is an issue. This is due to the exponential growth in the size of the output alphabet of the bit-channels as the codeword length increases. Tal and…
Polar codes are a class of linear error correction codes which provably attain channel capacity with infinite codeword lengths. Finite length polar codes have been adopted into the 5th Generation 3GPP standard for New Radio, though their…
Transmission of information reliably and efficiently across channels is one of the fundamental goals of coding and information theory. In this respect, efficiently decodable deterministic coding schemes which achieve capacity provably have…
A concatenated coding scheme over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using a polarization transformation followed by outer sub-codes is analyzed. Achievable error exponents and upper bounds on the error rate are derived. The first…
Polar codes are a class of {\bf structured} channel codes proposed by Ar{\i}kan based on the principle of {\bf channel polarization}, and can {\bf achieve} the symmetric capacity of any Binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channel (B-DMC). The…
The quantization of the output of a binary-input discrete memoryless channel to a smaller number of levels is considered. An algorithm which finds an optimal quantizer, in the sense of maximizing mutual information between the channel input…
Information-theoretic work for wiretap channels is mostly based on random coding schemes. Designing practical coding schemes to achieve information-theoretic security is an important problem. By applying the two recently developed…
We study the problem of characterizing when two memoryless binary asymmetric channels, described by their transition probabilities $(p,q)$ and $(p',q')$, are equivalent from the point of view of maximum likelihood decoding (MLD) when…
We consider polar codes constructed from the $2\times 2$ kernel $\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ \alpha & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$, where $q=p^s$ is a power of a prime number $p$, and $\alpha$ satisfies that…
We survey coding techniques that enable reliable transmission at rates that approach the capacity of an arbitrary discrete memoryless channel. In particular, we take the point of view of modern coding theory and discuss how recent advances…
In this paper, we propose a new polar code construction by employing kernels of different sizes in the Kronecker product of the transformation matrix, thus generalizing the original construction by Arikan. The proposed multi-kernel polar…
The second-order differential equation describes harmonic oscillators, as well as currents in LCR circuits. This allows us to study oscillator systems by constructing electronic circuits. Likewise, one set of closed commutation relations…
In this paper, we introduce stitched polar codes, a novel generalization of Ar{\i}kan's regular polar codes. Our core methodology reconfigures the fundamental polarization process by stitching additional structures to enhance the…
In this paper, we shed light on how an adaptive, efficient error coding in the transport layer helps ensure the application requirements. We recap the use of MDS codes and show that binary coding can significantly reduce the complexity and…
Although power line communication (PLC) systems are available everywhere, unfortunately these systems are not suitable for information transmission due to the effects of the impulsive noise. Therefore, many previous studies on channel codes…
In this paper, we introduce a binary balanced tree (BBT) channel transformation that extends Ar{\i}kan's channel transformation to arbitrary block lengths. We prove that the proposed transformation induces channel polarization, thereby…
A method for efficiently constructing polar codes is presented and analyzed. Although polar codes are explicitly defined, straightforward construction is intractable since the resulting polar bit-channels have an output alphabet that grows…
Fast polarization is an important and useful property of polar codes. It was proved for the binary polarizing $2 \times 2$ kernel by Arikan and Telatar. The proof was later generalized by Sasoglu. We give a simplified proof.
A decoding algorithm for polar (sub)codes with binary $2^t\times 2^t$ polarization kernels is presented. It is based on the window processing (WP) method, which exploits the linear relationship of the polarization kernels and the Arikan…