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The prevailing opinion in industry and academia is that polar codes are competitive for short code lengths, but can no longer keep up with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as block length increases. This view is typically based on the…

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

A latest coding scheme named polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes is shown to approach the dispersion bound for the code (128,64) under list decoding. However, to achieve the near-bound performance, the list size of list decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hongfei Zhu , Zhiwei Cao , Yuping Zhao , Dou Li , Yanjun Yang

A heuristic construction of polar codes for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding with a given list size is proposed to balance the trade-off between performance measured in frame error rate (FER) and decoding complexity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Peihong Yuan , Tobias Prinz , Georg Böcherer , Onurcan İşcan , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

In this work, we propose the integration of GLDPC codes with short polar-like component codes, termed GLDPC codes with polar component codes (GLDPC-PC). This approach leverages the good distance properties of polar-like codes and mitigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Binghui Shi , Yongpeng Wu , Yin Xu , Xiqi Gao , Xiaohu You , Wenjun Zhang

Binary linear block codes (BLBCs) form the foundation of modern communication systems, yet no single code family simultaneously optimizes all performance aspects. This leads to the widely used multi-code architecture in the standard,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Pin-Jing Li , Yu-Chih Huang

Polar codes have attracted a lot of attention during past few years and have been adopted as a coding scheme for 5G standard. Successive-cancellation list (SCL) decoder provides high level error-correction performance for polar codes, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Liang Ma , Hang Li , Yuejun Wei

To extend the applications of polar codes within next-generation wireless communication systems, it is essential to incorporate support for Incremental Redundancy (IR) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) schemes. For very high-throughput…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Marwan Jalaleddine , Mohamad Ali Jarkas , Jiajie Li , Warren J. Gross

The general subject considered in this thesis is a recently discovered coding technique, polar coding, which is used to construct a class of error correction codes with unique properties. In his ground-breaking work, Ar{\i}kan proved that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Mine Alsan

Polar codes were introduced in 2009 by Arikan as the first efficient encoding and decoding scheme that is capacity achieving for symmetric binary-input memoryless channels. Recently, this code family was extended by replacing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Maxime Tremblay , Benjamin Bourassa , David Poulin

We exploit the redundancy of the language-based source to help polar decoding. By judging the validity of decoded words in the decoded sequence with the help of a dictionary, the polar list decoder constantly detects erroneous paths after…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ying Wang , Minghai Qin , Krishna R. Narayanan , Anxiao Jiang , Zvonimir Bandic

We propose a belief propagation list (BPL) decoder with comparable performance to the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder of polar codes, which already achieves the maximum likelihood (ML) bound of polar codes for sufficiently large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

Linear Programming (LP) decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes has attracted much attention in the research community in the past few years. The aim of LP decoding is to develop an algorithm which has error-correcting performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Mayur Punekar , Mark F. Flanagan

A rateless coding scheme transmits incrementally more and more coded bits over an unknown channel until all the information bits are decoded reliably by the receiver. We propose a new rateless coding scheme based on polar codes, and we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Bin Li , David Tse , Kai Chen , Hui Shen

Polar codes are the first error-correcting codes to provably achieve the channel capacity but with infinite codelengths. For finite codelengths the existing decoder architectures are limited in working frequency by the partial sums…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Guillaume Berhault , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jego , Dominique Dallet

This paper investigates properties of polar codes that can be potentially useful in real-world applications. We start with analyzing the performance of finite-length polar codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC), while assuming belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Ali Eslami , H. Pishro-Nik

Successive cancellation list decoders with flip operations (SCL-Flip) can utilize re-decoding attempts to significantly improve the error-correction performance of polar codes. However, these re-decoding attempts result in extra computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yansong Lv , Hang Yin , Zhanxin Yang , Yuhuan Wang , Jingxin Dai , Jing Huan

LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes are among the most powerful and widely adopted modern error correcting codes. The iterative decoding algorithms required for these codes involve high computational complexity and high processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-16 Carlo Condo , Guido Masera

Polar coding is a recently proposed coding technique that can provably achieve the channel capacity. The polar code structure, which is based on the original 2x2 generator matrix, polarises the channels, i.e., a portion of the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Berksan Serbetci , Ali Emre Pusane

In this work, we introduce a deep learning-based polar code construction algorithm. The core idea is to represent the information/frozen bit indices of a polar code as a binary vector which can be interpreted as trainable weights of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink