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Recently, a robust steganographic algorithm that achieves errorless robustness against JPEG recompression is proposed. The method evaluates the behavior of DCT coefficients after recompression using the local JPEG encoder to select robust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jimin Zhang , Xianfeng Zhao , Xiaolei He

Polar codes provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a memoryless channel while having an explicit construction. This work aims to increase the throughput of polar decoder hardware by an order of magnitude relative to the state of the art…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

The weight spectrum plays a crucial role in the performance of error-correcting codes. Despite substantial theoretical exploration of polar codes with mother code length, a framework for the weight spectrum of rate-compatible polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zicheng Ye , Yuan Li , Zhichao Liu , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

Polar codes are one of the most recent advancements in coding theory and they have attracted significant interest. While they are provably capacity achieving over various channels, they have seen limited practical applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Georgios Karakonstantis , Andreas Burg

We study incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ (IR-HARQ) schemes based on punctured, finite-length, LDPC codes. The transmission is assumed to take place over time varying binary erasure channels, such as mobile wireless channels at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-30 Iryna Andriyanova , Emina Soljanin

In this paper, we propose a new polar code construction by employing kernels of different sizes in the Kronecker product of the transformation matrix, thus generalizing the original construction by Arikan. The proposed multi-kernel polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Valerio Bioglio , Frederic Gabry , Ingmar Land , Jean-Claude Belfiore

Unrolling a decoding algorithm allows to achieve extremely high throughput at the cost of increased area. Look-up tables (LUTs) can be used to replace functions otherwise implemented as circuits. In this work, we show the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Pascal Giard , Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Maximilian Stark , Gerhard Bauch

Targeting high-throughput and low-power communications, we implement two successive cancellation (SC) decoders for polar codes. With $16nm$ ASIC technology, the area efficiency and energy efficiency are $4Tbps/mm^2$ and $0.63pJ/bit$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jiajie Tong , Xianbin Wang , Qifan Zhang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Wen Tong

Polar codes are a new class of error correcting linear block codes, whose generator matrix is specified by the knowledge of transmission channel parameters, code length and code dimension. Moreover, regarding computational security, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Reza Hooshmand

This paper explores list decoding of convolutional and polar codes for short messages such as those found in the 5G physical broadcast channel. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is used to select a codeword from a list of likely codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Jacob King , Alexandra Kwon , Hengjie Yang , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have attracted a lot of attention due to their applications in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we provide new constructions of optimal $(2, \delta)$-LRCs over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with flexible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yuan Gao , Weijun Fang , Jingke Xu , Dong Wang , Sihuang Hu

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

Information reconciliation (IR) ensures the correctness of quantum key distribution systems, by correcting the error bits existed in the sifted keys. In this article, we propose a polar codes-based IR scheme with the frozen bits erasure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Bang-Ying Tang , Chun-Qing Wu , Wei Peng , Bo Liu , Wan-Rong Yu

Polar code is a breakthrough in coding theory. Using list successive cancellation decoding with large list size L, polar codes can achieve excellent error correction performance. The L partial decoded vectors are stored in the path memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 ChenYang Xia , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Steganography is an information hiding technique for covert communication. The core issue in steganography design is the rate-distortion coding problem. Polar codes, which have been proven to achieve the rate-distortion bound for any binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yujun Ji , Jinsheng Li , Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Tao Dai

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

A heuristic construction of polar codes for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding with a given list size is proposed to balance the trade-off between performance measured in frame error rate (FER) and decoding complexity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Peihong Yuan , Tobias Prinz , Georg Böcherer , Onurcan İşcan , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

This paper proposes an efficient secret key cryptosystem based on polar codes over Binary Erasure Channel. We introduce a method, for the first time to our knowledge, to hide the generator matrix of the polar codes from an attacker. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Reza Hooshmand , Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari , Mohammad Reza Aref

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yang Liu , Cunsheng Ding , Chunming Tang

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