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As the first kind of forward error correction (FEC) codes that achieve channel capacity, polar codes have attracted much research interest recently. Compared with other popular FEC codes, polar codes decoded by list successive cancellation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-02 ChenYang Xia , Ji Chen , YouZhe Fan , Chi-ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

Visible light communications (VLC) are motivated by the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum crunch and fast-growing solid-state lighting technology. VLC relies on white light emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide communication and illumination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Zhenhua Yu , Arthur J. Redfern , G. Tong Zhou

This paper presents our low-latency Polar code encoders and decoders developed for the 2025 International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC 2025) contest, which challenges participants to implement the fastest possible channel code…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mathieu Leonardon , Mohammed El Houcine Ayoubi , Adrien Cassagne , Romain Tajan , Camille Leroux

The massive deployment of light-emitting diode (LED) lightning infrastructure has opened the opportunity to reuse it as visible light communication (VLC) to leverage the current RF spectrum crisis in indoor scenarios. One of the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Francisco J. Escribano , José Sáez-Landete , Alexandre Wagemakers

Blind recognition of polar codes remains challenging in non-cooperative scenarios, particularly for information-set recognition with known code length. Existing methods mainly rely on threshold decisions determined by the generator-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changwei Tu , Yang Liu , Xianzhao Feng , Kai Niu

Achieving security against adversaries with unlimited computational power is of great interest in a communication scenario. Since polar codes are capacity achieving codes with low encoding-decoding complexity and they can approach perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amirsina Torfi , Sobhan Soleymani , Siamak Aram , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

Long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) decoding algorithm. But for polar codes with short and moderate code length, the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

Multi-colour light-emitting diode (LED) based visible light communication (VLC) benefits from wavelength diversity while providing indoor illumination. Colour shift keying (CSK) is a well-researched IEEE standardised multi-colour VLC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-26 Ravinder Singh , Timothy O'Farrell , Thai C. Bui , Mauro Biagi , John P. R. David

Polar codes are a new class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexity. Their low-complexity decoding algorithms rendering them attractive for use in software-defined radio applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Pascal Giard , Gabi Sarkis , Camille Leroux , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

In this paper, an energy-efficient precoding scheme is designed for multi-user visible light communication (VLC) systems in the context of physical layer security, where users' messages are kept mutually confidential. The design problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Son T. Duong , Thanh V. Pham , Chuyen T. Nguyen , Anh T. Pham

In this letter we present an improved distributed video coding (DVC) scheme based on polar coding techniques. Firstly, we adapt log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for DVC with integer implementation of a discrete cosine transform (DCT). We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Evgeny Belyaev , Peter Trifonov

Use of multiple light emitting diodes (LED) is an attractive way to increase spectral efficiency in visible light communications (VLC). A non-DC-biased OFDM (NDC OFDM) scheme that uses two LEDs has been proposed in the literature recently.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 S. P. Alaka , T. Lakshmi Narasimhan , A. Chockalingam

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a current technology which allows data to be transmitted by modulating information onto a light source. It has many advantages over traditional radio frequency communication and up to 10,000 times larger…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Shamin Achari , Alice Yi Yang , James Goodhead , Brendon Swanepoel , Ling Cheng

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is based on the dual use of the illumination infrastructure for wireless data communication. The major interest on this communication technology lies on its specific features to be a secure, cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Antonio Costanzo , Valeria Loscri , Mauro Biagi

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

In blind detection, a set of candidates has to be decoded within a strict time constraint, to identify which transmissions are directed at the user equipment. Blind detection is required by the 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced standard, and it will be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Arash Ardakani , Furkan Ercan , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are the first class of capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. They have been selected as one of the coding schemes for the 5G communication systems due to their excellent error correction performance when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-23 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Chi-ying Tsui

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity, secrecy capacity achieving polar coding scheme for the cognitive interference channel with confidential messages (CICC) under the strong secrecy criterion. Existing polar coding schemes for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Mengfan Zheng , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

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 a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so with low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and they…