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This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

In 2008 Arikan proposed polar coding [arXiv:0807.3917] which we summarize as follows: (a) From the root channel $W$ synthesize recursively a series of channels $W_N^{(1)},\dotsc,W_N^{(N)}$. (b) Select sophisticatedly a subset $A$ of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

Polar-coded multiple-input multiple-output systems are investigated. An advanced receiver implementing joint list decoding of polar codes and QR- and MMSE-based detectors is proposed. The approximate and exact path metrics are derived for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liudmila Karakchieva , Peter Trifonov

We consider the joint design of polar coding and higher-order modulation schemes for ever increased spectral efficiency. The close connection between the polar code construction and the multi-level coding approach is described in detail.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-30 Mathis Seidl , Andreas Schenk , Clemens Stierstorfer , Johannes B. Huber

Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypothesis. This paper presents an experimental study to predict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 D. Cotroneo , F. C. Grasso , R. Natella , V. Orbinato

We show that polar codes asymptotically achieve the whole capacity-equivocation region for the wiretap channel when the wiretapper's channel is degraded with respect to the main channel, and the weak secrecy notion is used. Our coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Mattias Andersson , Vishwambhar Rathi , Ragnar Thobaben , Joerg Kliewer , Mikael Skoglund

A multilevel coded modulation scheme is studied that uses solely binary polar codes and Honda-Yamamoto probabilistic shaping. The scheme is shown to achieve the capacity of discrete memoryless channels with input alphabets of cardinality a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Constantin Runge , Thomas Wiegart , Diego Lentner , Tobias Prinz

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm to design rate- and length-flexible polar codes. While the algorithm is very general, a particularly appealing use case is the design of codes for automorphism ensemble decoding (AED), a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Marvin Rübenacke , Andreas Zunker , Felix Krieg , Stephan ten Brink

We consider the problem of supporting H-ARQ with polar codes. For supporting H-ARQ, we propose to create redundancy versions based on different, but equivalent, subsets of a polar code. The equivalent subsets are created from an initial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Saurabha R. Tavildar

Motivated by the significant performance gains which polar codes experience under successive cancellation list decoding, their scaling exponent is studied as a function of the list size. In particular, the error probability is fixed and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

In this paper, we leverage polar codes and the well-established channel polarization to design capacity-achieving codes with a certain constraint on the weights of all the columns in the generator matrix (GM) while having a low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-17 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Recently, automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) has drawn research interest as a more computationally efficient alternative to successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. Although AED has demonstrated superior performance for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Marvin Geiselhart , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

Owing to their capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity, polar codes have drawn much research interests recently. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

In this paper, we show some applications of algebraic curves to the construction of kernels of polar codes over a discrete memoryless channel which is symmetric w.r.t the field operations. We will also study the minimum distance of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Eduardo Camps , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Eliseo Sarmiento

Polar codes have been shown to approach capacity of symmetric binary erasure channels and also have low encoding and decoding complexity. Wireless channels are bursty in nature and a method to apply polar codes over wireless channels is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Mohammed Usman

This paper presents non-binary polar codes for the two-user multiple-access channel (MAC). The bit error rate (BER) performances of the non-binary polar codes with different kernel factors have been investigated in detail to select a proper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guan-Chen Liu , Qi-Yue Yu

Good quantum error-correcting codes that fulfill practical considerations, such as simple encoding circuits and efficient decoders, are essential for functional quantum information processing systems. Quantum polar codes satisfy some of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Keita Hidaka , Dina Abdelhadi , Ruediger Urbanke

In the standard polar code construction, the message vector $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{n-1})$ is divided into information bits and frozen bits according to the reliability of each $U_i$ given $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{i-1})$ and all the channel outputs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guodong Li , Min Ye , Sihuang Hu

Over the past decade, polar codes have received significant traction and have been selected as the coding method for the control channel in fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication systems. However, conventional polar codes are reliant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hossein Rezaei , Elham Abbasi , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho