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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

Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

In this paper, we define partial orders (POs) of polar codes based on the Bhattacharyya parameter and the bit-error probability, respectively. These POs are applicable to arbitrary binary memoryless symmetric channel (BMSC). Leveraging the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Liuquan Yao , Zhichao Liu , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

It is shown that polar codes achieve the symmetric capacity of discrete memoryless channels with arbitrary input alphabet sizes. It is shown that in general, channel polarization happens in several, rather than only two levels so that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Polar codes are constructed based on the reliability of sub-channels resulting from the polarization effect. However, this information-theoretic construction approach leads to a poor weight distribution. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

This paper introduces a neural polar decoder (NPD) for deletion channels with a constant deletion rate. Existing polar decoders for deletion channels exhibit high computational complexity of $O(N^4)$, where $N$ is the block length. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziv Aharoni , Henry D. Pfister

Over any discrete memoryless channel, we build codes such that: for one, their block error probabilities and code rates scale like random codes'; and for two, their encoding and decoding complexities scale like polar codes'. Quantitatively,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

We consider the problem of efficiently constructing polar codes over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels. The complexity of designing polar codes via an exact evaluation of the polarized channels to find which ones are "good" appears…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 Ramtin Pedarsani , S. Hamed Hassani , Ido Tal , Emre Telatar

We present a comparative study of the performance of various polar code constructions in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. A polar code construction is any algorithm that selects $K$ best among $N$ possible polar bit-channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Harish Vangala , Emanuele Viterbo , Yi Hong

The problem of polar coding for an arbitrary sequence of independent binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels $\left\{W_i\right\}_{i=1}^{N}$ is considered. The sequence of channels is assumed to be completely known to both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Hessam Mahdavifar

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

Arikan's recursive code construction is designed to polarize a collection of memoryless channels into a set of good and a set of bad channels, and it can be efficiently decoded using successive cancellation. It was recently shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Benjamin Bourassa , Maxime Tremblay , David Poulin

We prove that, for all binary-input symmetric memoryless channels, polar codes enable reliable communication at rates within $\epsilon > 0$ of the Shannon capacity with a block length, construction complexity, and decoding complexity all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Venkatesan Guruswami , Patrick Xia

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 codes were recently introduced by Ar\i kan. They achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancellation decoding strategy. The original polar code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Satish Babu Korada , Eren Sasoglu , Rudiger Urbanke

Channel polarization, originally proposed for binary-input channels, is generalized to arbitrary discrete memoryless channels. Specifically, it is shown that when the input alphabet size is a prime number, a similar construction to that for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Eren Sasoglu , Emre Telatar , Erdal Arikan

Polar code lattices are formed from binary polar codes using Construction D. In this paper, we propose a design technique for finite-dimension polar code lattices. The dimension $n$ and target probability of decoding error are parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Obed Rhesa Ludwiniananda , Ning Liu , Khoirul Anwar , Brian M. Kurkoski

Polar codes are a new family of error correction codes for which efficient hardware architectures have to be defined for the encoder and the decoder. Polar codes are decoded using the successive cancellation decoding algorithm that includes…

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

We present a rate-compatible polar coding scheme that achieves the capacity of any family of channels. Our solution generalizes the previous results [1], [2] that provide capacity-achieving rate-compatible polar codes for a degraded family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Ivana Marić , Dennis Hui , Song-Nam Hong

We study the application of polar codes in deletion channels by analyzing the cascade of a binary erasure channel (BEC) and a deletion channel. We show how polar codes can be used effectively on a BEC with a single deletion, and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Eldho K. Thomas , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Alexander Vardy , Mehul Motani