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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

Ar{\i}kan's polar coding, is by now a well studied technique that allows achieving the symmetric capacity of binary input memoryless channels with low complexity encoding and decoding, provided that the polar decoding architecture is used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mine Alsan

We propose a generalized construction for binary polar codes based on mixing multiple kernels of different sizes in order to construct polar codes of block lengths that are not only powers of integers. This results in a multi kernel polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Frederic Gabry , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land , Jean-Claude Belfiore

Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and moderate length codes is worse than that of other modern…

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

The structure of polar codes inherently requires block lengths to be powers of two. In this paper, we investigate how different block lengths can be realized by coupling of several short-length polar codes. For this, we first analyze "code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-14 A. Elkelesh , M. Ebada , S. Cammerer , S. ten Brink

In this paper, we propose a method to obtain the optimal metric function at each depth of the polarization tree through a process we call polarization of the metric function. This polarization process generates an optimal metric at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

Polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving error correcting codes that have been selected for use in enhanced mobile broadband in the 3GPP 5th generation (5G) wireless standard. Most polar code research examines the original Arikan polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Adam Cavatassi , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

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

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

In this paper, we study codes with sparse generator matrices. More specifically, low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes with a certain constraint on the weight of the columns in the generator matrix are considered. In this paper, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Polar codes are a class of linear error correction codes which provably attain channel capacity with infinite codeword lengths. Finite length polar codes have been adopted into the 5th Generation 3GPP standard for New Radio, though their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Adam Cavatassi , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

In this paper, we present a novel way for solving the main problem of designing the capacity approaching irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over binary erasure channel (BEC). The proposed method is much simpler, faster,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian Attari , M. R. Peyghami

We present an approach to showing that a linear code is resilient to random errors. We use this approach to obtain decoding results for both transitive codes and Reed-Muller codes. We give three kinds of results about linear codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anup Rao , Oscar Sprumont

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of variable-length coding over the class of memoryless binary asymmetric channels (BACs) with noiseless feedback, including the binary symmetric channel (BSC) as a special case. In 2012, Naghshvar et…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hengjie Yang , Minghao Pan , Amaael Antonini , Richard D. Wesel

In this paper, we modify polar codes constructed with some 2^t x 2^t polarization kernels to reduce the time complexity of the window decoding. This modification is based on the permutation of the columns of the kernels. This method is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Fariba Abbasi , Emanuele Viterbo

In this work, we consider efficient maximum-likelihood decoding of linear block codes for small-to-moderate block lengths. The presented approach is a branch-and-bound algorithm using the cutting-plane approach of Zhang and Siegel (IEEE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Michael Helmling , Eirik Rosnes , Stefan Ruzika , Stefan Scholl

Practically good error-correcting codes should have good parameters and efficient decoding algorithms. Some algebraically defined good codes such as cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes, and Reed-Muller codes have nice decoding algorithms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lucky Galvez , Jon-Lark Kim

We show that the entire class of polar codes (up to a natural necessary condition) converge to capacity at block lengths polynomial in the gap to capacity, while simultaneously achieving failure probabilities that are exponentially small in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jarosław Błasiok , Venkatesan Guruswami , Madhu Sudan