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A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

Improved bounds on the blocklength required to communicate over binary-input channels using polar codes, below some given error probability, are derived. For that purpose, an improved bound on the number of non-polarizing channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

In this paper, we show that nested lattice codes achieve the capacity of arbitrary channels with or without non-casual state information at the transmitter. We also show that nested lattice codes are optimal for source coding with or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Adam Cavatassi , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

Direct evaluation of the rate-distortion function has rarely been achieved when it is strictly greater than its Shannon lower bound. In this paper, we consider the rate-distortion function for the distortion measure defined by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Kazuho Watanabe

This paper introduces a neural polar decoder (NPD) for deletion channels with a constant deletion rate. Existing polar decoders for deletion channels exhibit high computational complexity of $O(N^4)$, where $N$ is the block length. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziv Aharoni , Henry D. Pfister

A pruned variant of polar coding is reinvented for all binary erasure channels. For small $\varepsilon>0$, we construct codes with block length $\varepsilon^{-5}$, code rate $\text{Capacity}-\varepsilon$, error probability $\varepsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

We propose efficient coding schemes for two communication settings: 1. asymmetric channels, and 2. channels with an informed encoder. These settings are important in non-volatile memories, as well as optical and broadcast communication. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Eyal En Gad , Yue Li , Joerg Kliewer , Michael Langberg , Anxiao Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

Arikan's recursive code construction is designed to polarize a collection of memoryless channels into a set of good and a set of bad channels, and it can be efficiently decoded using successive cancellation. It was recently shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Benjamin Bourassa , Maxime Tremblay , David Poulin

The problem of communication over binary dirty paper (DP) using nested polar codes is considered. An improved scheme, focusing on low delay, short to moderate blocklength communication is proposed. Successive cancellation list (SCL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Barak Beilin , David Burshtein

The inherent nature of polar codes being channel specific makes it difficult to use them in a setting where the communication channel changes with time. In particular, to be able to use polar codes in a wireless scenario, varying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 P. K. Deekshith , K. R. Sahasranand

In this paper, faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel is studied. To this end, a simple erasure-based fault model is introduced to represent errors in the decoder and it is shown that, under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and moderate length codes is worse than that of other modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

In this paper, we study polar codes from a practical point of view. In particular, we study concatenated polar codes and rate-compatible polar codes. First, we propose a concatenation scheme including polar codes and Low-Density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Ali Eslami , Hossein Pishro-Nik

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

We prove that, for the binary erasure channel (BEC), the polar-coding paradigm gives rise to codes that not only approach the Shannon limit but do so under the best possible scaling of their block length as a~function of the gap to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Arman Fazeli , S. Hamed Hassani , Marco Mondelli , Alexander Vardy

Polar codes have been selected as the channel coding scheme for control channel in the fifth generation (5G) communication system thanks to their capacity achieving characteristics. However, the traditional polar codes support only codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hossein Rezaei , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

We develop a low-complexity polar coding scheme for the discrete memoryless broadcast channel with confidential messages under strong secrecy and randomness constraints. Our scheme extends previous work by using an optimal rate of uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

Polar codes were originally specified for codelengths that are powers of two. In many applications, it is desired to have a code that is not restricted to such lengths. Two common strategies of modifying the length of a code are shortening…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

Hypernetworks were recently shown to improve the performance of message passing algorithms for decoding error correcting codes. In this work, we demonstrate how hypernetworks can be applied to decode polar codes by employing a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf