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Polar codes are the first class of structured channel codes that achieve the symmetric capacity of binary channels with efficient encoding and decoding. In 2019, Arikan proposed a new polar coding scheme referred to as polarization-adjusted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hamid Saber , Homayoon Hatami , Jung Hyun Bae

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Polarization is an unprecedented coding technique in that it not only achieves channel capacity, but also does so at a faster speed of convergence than any other coding technique. This speed is measured by the ``scaling exponent'' and its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Iwan Duursma , Ryan Gabrys , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ting-Chun Lin , Hsin-Po Wang

In this work, we investigate the performance of polar codes with the assistance of feedback in communication systems. Although it is well known that feedback does not improve the capacity of memoryless channels, we show that the finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Liping Li , Baoming Bai

In this paper, we consider the problem of polar coding for block fading channels, with emphasis on those with instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at neither the transmitter nor the receiver. Our approach is to decompose a block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Mengfan Zheng , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

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

Polar codes are a recent family of error-correcting codes with a number of desirable characteristics. Their disruptive nature is illustrated by their rapid adoption in the $5^{th}$-generation mobile-communication standard, where they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Pascal Giard , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

The adversarial wiretap channel (AWTC) model is a secure communication model in which adversary can directly read and write the transmitted bits in legitimate communication with fixed fractions. In this paper we propose a secure polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yizhi Zhao

In this paper we show how to attain the capacity of discrete symmetric channels with polynomial time decoding complexity by considering iterated $(U|U+V)$ constructions with Reed-Solomon code or algebraic geometry code components. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Irene Marquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We construct a new entanglement-assisted quantum polar coding scheme which achieves the symmetric coherent information rate by synthesizing "amplitude" and "phase" channels from a given, arbitrary quantum channel. We first demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Mark M. Wilde , Joseph M. Renes

In this thesis we present several results in coding theory, concerning error-correcting codes and the Shannon capacity. 1. We give a general symmetry reduction of matrices occuring in semidefinite programs in coding theory. 2. We apply the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Sven Polak

Polar codes are a recently proposed family of provably capacity-achieving error-correction codes that received a lot of attention. While their theoretical properties render them interesting, their practicality compared to other types of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard , Andreas Burg

A polar coding scheme is proposed for the Wiretap Broadcast Channel with two legitimate receivers and one eavesdropper. We consider a model in which the transmitter wishes to send different confidential (and non-confidential) information to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jaume del Olmo , Javier R. Fonollosa

We consider a network of two nodes separated by a noisy channel, in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source and its reconstruction. In the case of strictly causal encoding and non-causal decoding, we prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Giulia Cervia , Laura Luzzi , Maël Le Treust , Matthieu R. Bloch

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

We propose a generalized construction for binary polar codes based on mixing multiple kernels of different sizes in order to construct polar codes of block lengths that are not only powers of integers. This results in a multi kernel polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Frederic Gabry , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land , Jean-Claude Belfiore

We consider a network of two nodes separated by a noisy channel with two-sided state information, in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source and its reconstruction. In the case of non-causal encoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Giulia Cervia , Laura Luzzi , Maël Le Treust , Matthieu R. Bloch

This paper first presents a new approach to evaluating the descriptive complexity of finite-length binary sequences. Specifically, we investigate the sequence-wise recovery behavior induced by polar compression and successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

Resistive memories are considered a promising memory technology enabling high storage densities with in-memory computing capabilities. However, the readout reliability of resistive memories is impaired due to the inevitable existence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Marwen Zorgui , Mohammed E. Fouda , Zhiying Wang , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Fadi Kurdahi

We consider two problems related to polar codes. First is the problem of polar codes construction and analysis of their performance without Monte-Carlo method. The formulas proposed are the same as those in [Mori-Tanaka], yet we believe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Gregory Bonik , Sergei Goreinov , Nickolai Zamarashkin