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A method for efficiently constructing polar codes is presented and analyzed. Although polar codes are explicitly defined, straightforward construction is intractable since the resulting polar bit-channels have an output alphabet that grows…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy

Arikan's polar codes are capable of achieving the Shannon's capacity at a low encoding and decoding complexity, while inherently supporting rate adaptation. By virtue of these attractive features, polar codes have provided fierce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Zunaira Babar , Zeynep B. Kaykac Egilmez , Luping Xiang , Daryus Chandra , Robert G. Maunder , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Polar codes have attracted much recent attention as the first codes with low computational complexity that provably achieve optimal rate-regions for a large class of information-theoretic problems. One significant drawback, however, is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi , Michelle Effros

A new permutation decoding approach for polar codes is presented. The complexity of the algorithm is similar to that of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder, while it can be implemented with the latency of a successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

We describe a novel approach to interpret a polar code as a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-like code with an underlying sparse decoding graph. This sparse graph is based on the encoding factor graph of polar codes and is suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Sebastian Cammerer , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink

ABS+ polar codes are a generalization of Arikan polar codes that provides much faster polarization. We present an LLR-domain version of the SCL decoder of ABS+ polar codes. Furthermore, we optimize the SCL algorithm in order to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mikhail Chernikov , Peter Trifonov

In this paper, we propose a comprehensive Polar coding solution that integrates reliability calculation, rate matching and parity-check coding. Judging a channel coding design from the industry's viewpoint, there are two primary concerns:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Jian Wang , Shengchen Dai , Gongzheng Zhang , Ying Chen , Hejia Luo , Jun Wang

Previous work showed that polar codes can be decoded using off-the-shelf LDPC decoders by imposing special constraints on the LDPC code structure, which, however, resulted in some performance degradation. In this paper we show that this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuqing Ren , Leyu Zhang , Ludovic Damien Blanc , Yifei Shen , Xinwei Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

This brief proposes a hardware implementation architecture for Fano decoding of polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes. This architecture uses a novel branch metric unit specific to PAC codes. The proposed decoder is tested on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Amir Mozammel

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

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

In this paper, we study the connection between polar codes and product codes. Our analysis shows that the product of two polar codes is again a polar code, and we provide guidelines to compute its frozen set on the basis of the frozen sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Hartmut Hafermann , Ingmar Land

Polar codes are widely used in modern communication systems due to their capacity-achieving properties. This paper investigates the importance of coded bits in the decoding process of polar codes and aims to determine which bits contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hossam Hassan , Ali Gaber , Mohammed Karmoose , Noha Korany

In this work, we present a simplified successive cancellation list decoder that uses a Chase-like decoding process to achieve a six time improvement in speed compared to successive cancellation list decoding while maintaining the same…

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

Polar code visibly approaches channel capacity in practice and is thereby a constituent code of the 5G standard. Compared to low-density parity-check code, however, the performance of short-length polar code has rooms for improvement that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hsin-Po Wang , Ting-Chun Lin , Alexander Vardy , Ryan Gabrys

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

Recently, a novel variation of polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes has been introduced by Ar{\i}kan. These codes significantly outperform conventional polar and convolutional codes, particularly for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

New algorithms for efficient decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC-augmented), transmitted over either a binary erasure channel (BEC) or an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC), are presented. We start by presenting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yonatan Urman , Guy Mogilevsky , David Burshtein

A commonly assumed drawback of multi-level coding, compared to a bit-interleaved coded modulation, is its high latency: Indeed, the levels must be decoded sequentially. In this paper, we consider polar codes to code each level. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Vincent Corlay