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For the polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009, the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

The problem of polar coding for an arbitrary sequence of independent binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels $\left\{W_i\right\}_{i=1}^{N}$ is considered. The sequence of channels is assumed to be completely known to both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Hessam Mahdavifar

This study examines multilevel channel polarization for a certain class of erasure channels that the input alphabet size is an arbitrary composite number. We derive limiting proportions of partially noiseless channels for such a class. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata , Hiroshi Fujisaki

We consider the problem of transmission of several distributed correlated sources over a multiple access channel (MAC) with side information at the sources and the decoder. Source-channel separation does not hold for this channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 R. Rajesh , Vinod Sharma , V. K. Varshenya

The problem of three-user multiple-access channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback is investigated. A new coding strategy is presented. The coding scheme builds upon the natural extension of the Cover-Leung (CL) scheme; and uses quasi-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mohsen Heidari , Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The necessary and sufficient condition of the channel capacity is rigorously formulated for the N-user discrete memoryless multiple-access channel (MAC). The essence of the formulation is to invoke an {\em elementary} MAC where sizes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-09 Yoichiro Watanabe , Koichi Kamoi

Based on the extended binary image of non-binary LDPC codes, we propose a method for generating extra redundant bits, such as to decreases the coding rate of a mother code. The proposed method allows for using the same decoder, regardless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Lam Pham Sy , Valentin Savin , David Declercq

There is a class of entropy-coding methods which do not substitute symbols by code words (such as Huffman coding), but operate on intervals or ranges. This class includes three prominent members: conventional arithmetic coding, range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tilo Strutz , Nico Schreiber

Unambiguous unitary maps and unambiguous unitary quantum channels are introduced and some of their properties are derived. These properties ensure certain simple form for the measurements involved in realizing an unambiguous unitary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Shengjun Wu , Xuemei Chen

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

A polar coding scheme is introduced in this paper for the wire-tap channel. It is shown that the provided scheme achieves the entire rate-equivocation region for the case of symmetric and degraded wire-tap channel, where the weak notion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Eran Hof , Shlomo Shamai

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

Polar codes are introduced for discrete memoryless broadcast channels. For $m$-user deterministic broadcast channels, polarization is applied to map uniformly random message bits from $m$ independent messages to one codeword while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Naveen Goela , Emmanuel Abbe , Michael Gastpar

We prove polarization theorems for arbitrary classical-quantum (cq) channels. The input alphabet is endowed with an arbitrary Abelian group operation and an Ar{\i}kan-style transformation is applied using this operation. It is shown that as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Rajai Nasser , Joseph M. Renes

Constructing efficient low-rate error-correcting codes with low-complexity encoding and decoding have become increasingly important for applications involving ultra-low-power devices such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. To this end,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Fariba Abbasi , Hessam Mahdavifar , Emanuele Viterbo

We propose an iterative method for approximately computing the capacity of discrete memoryless channels, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of convex programming, we derive explicit upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm using polar decomposition to approximate a channel characterized by a single unitary matrix based on input-output quantum state pairs. In limited data, we state and prove that the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Matthew M. Lin , Hao-Wei Huang , Bing-Ze Lu

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

We introduce two notions of discrepancy between binary vectors, which are not metric functions in general but nonetheless capture the mathematical structure of the binary asymmetric channel. In turn, these lead to two new fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani

This study proposes \emph{modular arithmetic erasure channels} (MAECs), a novel class of erasure-like channels with an input alphabet that need not be binary. This class contains the binary erasure channel (BEC) and some other known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata , Hiroshi Fujisaki