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This paper proposes a method to optimize communication code rates via the application of neural polar decoders (NPDs). Employing this approach enables simultaneous optimization of code rates over input distributions while providing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ziv Aharoni , Bashar Huleihel , Henry D Pfister , Haim H Permuter

Polar encoding, described by Arikan in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2009, was a milestone for telecommunications. A Polar code distributes information among high and low-capacity channels, showing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Geraldo A. Barbosa

This paper studies the performance of delay-constrained hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ protocols. Particularly, we propose a fast HARQ protocol where, to increase the end-to-end throughput, some HARQ feedback signals and successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Giuseppe Caire , Michele Zorzi

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

A rateless code-i.e., a rate-compatible family of codes-has the property that codewords of the higher rate codes are prefixes of those of the lower rate ones. A perfect family of such codes is one in which each of the codes in the family is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-07 Uri Erez , Mitchell D. Trott , Gregory W. Wornell

Polar codes are the first class of constructive channel codes achieving the symmetric capacity of the binary-input discrete memoryless channels. But the analysis and construction of polar codes involve the complex iterative-calculation. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kai Niu , Yan Li , Weiling Wu

A message composed of packets is transmitted using erasure and channel coding over a fading channel with no feedback. For this scenario, the paper explores the trade-off between the redundancies allocated to the packet-level erasure code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Tong Mu , Richard D. Wesel

Semantic communication has witnessed a great progress with the development of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL). Although existing semantic communication technologies can effectively reduce errors in semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Yong Xiao , Honggang Zhang

Polar codes are a class of linear block codes that provably achieves channel capacity, and have been selected as a coding scheme for $5^{\rm th}$ generation wireless communication standards. Successive-cancellation (SC) decoding of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Carlo Condo , Furkan Ercan , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are usually constructed by ranking synthetic bit-channels according to reliability, which guarantees capacity-achieving behavior but can yield poor low-weight spectra at short and moderate lengths. Recent algebraic results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Adaptation of a wireless system to the polarization state of the propagation channel can improve reliability and throughput. This paper in particular considers polarization reconfigurable multiple input multiple output (PR-MIMO) systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Paul S. Oh , Sean S. Kwon , Andreas F. Molisch

Polar codes are constructed for arbitrary channels by imposing an arbitrary quasigroup structure on the input alphabet. Just as with "usual" polar codes, the block error probability under successive cancellation decoding is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Rajai Nasser , Emre Telatar

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes were recently proposed and arouse the interest of the channel coding community because they were shown to approach theoretical bounds for the (128,64) code size. In this letter, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

A pragmatic coded modulation system is presented that incorporates signal shaping and exploits the excellent performance and efficient high-speed decoding architecture of staircase codes. Reliable communication within 0.62 bits/s/Hz of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Benjamin P. Smith , Frank R. Kschischang

We propose a probabilistic shaping approach for region-of-interest signaling, where a low-rate signal controls the desired probabilistic ranges of a high-rate data stream using a flexible distribution controller. In addition, we introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Yoshifumi Shiraki , Jun Muramatsu , Takehiro Moriya

A long-standing vision of backscatter communications is to provide long-range connectivity and high-speed transmissions for batteryless Internet-of-Things (IoT). Recent years have seen major innovations in designing backscatters toward this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Guochao Song , Hang Yang , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

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

The flexible-rate Polar-BCH product codes are experimentally demonstrated in a coherent passive optical network system with 16QAM for the first time. Using a new hybrid soft- and hard-decision decoder, we achieve a power gain of upto 1.75…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yifan Ye , Bin Chen , Xiang Li , Yi Lei , Zhiwei Liang , Qingqing Hu , Can Zhao , Yanni Ou

This paper proposes a rate-profile construction method for polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes of any code length and rate, which is capable of maintaining trade-off between the error-correction performance and decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Mohsen Moradi , Amir Mozammel