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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…
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…
Motivated by the need for channel codes with low-complexity soft-decision decoding algorithms, we consider the recursive Plotkin concatenation of optimal low-rate and high-rate codes based on simplex codes and their duals. These component…
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…
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…
In this paper, we investigate a coupled polar code architecture that supports both local and global decoding. This local-global construction is motivated by practical applications in data storage and transmission where reduced-latency…
In this work, we present hardware and software implementations of flexible polar systematic encoders and decoders. The proposed implementations operate on polar codes of any length less than a maximum and of any rate. We describe the…
This paper investigates properties of concatenated polar codes and their potential applications. We start with reviewing previous work on stopping set analysis for conventional polar codes, which we extend in this paper to concatenated…
This paper presents a polarization-driven (PD) shortening technique for the design of rate-compatible polar codes. The proposed shortening strategy consists of reducing the generator matrix by relating its row index with the channel…
In this paper, we present an efficient method to construct a good rate-compatible punctured polar (RCPP) code. One of the major challenges on the construction of a RCPP code is to design a common information set which is good for all the…
The puncturing and shortening technique are two important approaches to constructing new linear codes from old ones. In the past 70 years, a lot of progress on the puncturing technique has been made, and many works on punctured linear codes…
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:…
In this paper, we introduce stitched polar codes, a novel generalization of Ar{\i}kan's regular polar codes. Our core methodology reconfigures the fundamental polarization process by stitching additional structures to enhance the…
Polar codes are the first class of constructive channel codes achieving the symmetric capacity of the binary-input discrete memoryless channels. But the corresponding code length is limited to the power of two. In this paper, we establish a…
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…
It is known that polar codes can be efficiently constructed for binary-input channels. At the same time, existing algorithms for general input alphabets are less practical because of high complexity. We address the construction problem for…
Consider the problem of constructing a polar code of block length $N$ for the transmission over a given channel $W$. Typically this requires to compute the reliability of all the $N$ synthetic channels and then to include those that are…
A design of rate-compatible polar codes suitable for HARQ communications is proposed in this paper. An important feature of the proposed design is that the puncturing order is chosen with low complexity on a base code of short length, which…
This paper investigates the impact of puncturing on finite-length polar codes in which a puncturing pattern $\pv^{N}=(p_0,...,p_N)$ is applied to a length-$N$ polar code.. We first introduce two virtual channels to stochastically model the…
We improve the method in \cite{Seidl:10} for increasing the finite-lengh performance of polar codes by protecting specific, less reliable symbols with simple outer repetition codes. Decoding of the scheme integrates easily in the known…