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Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes have recently emerged as a promising class of error-correcting codes, achieving near-capacity performance particularly in the short block-length regime. In this paper, we propose an enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

We consider the design of coding schemes for the wireless two-way relaying channel when there is no channel state information at the transmitter. In the spirit of the compute and forward paradigm, we present a multilevel coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Brett Hern , Krishna Narayanan

Polar codes are of great interests because they provably achieve the capacity of both discrete and continuous memoryless channels while having an explicit construction. Most existing decoding algorithms of polar codes are based on bit-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

New soft- and hard decision decoding algorithms are presented for general Reed-Muller codes $\left\{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{m}{r}\right\} $ of length $2^{m}$ and distance $2^{m-r}$. We use Plotkin $(u,u+v)$ construction and decompose code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ilya Dumer

This paper considers the joint-decoding (JD) problem for finite-state channels (FSCs) and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In the first part, the linear-programming (LP) decoder for binary linear codes is extended to JD of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Byung-Hak Kim , Henry D. Pfister

In this paper, we introduce a deep learning-based decoder designed for concatenated coding schemes over a deletion/substitution channel. Specifically, we focus on serially concatenated codes, where the outer code is either a convolutional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 E. Uras Kargı , Tolga M. Duman

Recently, a data-driven Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) algorithm tailored to channels with intersymbol interference has been introduced. This so-called BCJRNet algorithm utilizes neural networks to calculate channel likelihoods. BCJRNet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chin-Hung Chen , Boris Karanov , Wim van Houtum , Wu Yan , Alex Young , Alex Alvarado

We consider the design and analysis of coding schemes for the binary input two way relay channel with erasure noise. We are particularly interested in reliable physical layer network coding in which the relay performs perfect error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Brett Hern , Krishna Narayanan

High-rate concatenated quantum codes offer a promising pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet designing efficient decoders that fully exploit their error-correction capability remains a significant challenge. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Chao Zhang , Zipeng Wu , Jiahui Wu , Shilin Huang

We propose a novel optimization-based decoding algorithm for LDPC-coded massive MIMO channels. The proposed decoding algorithm is based on a proximal gradient method for solving an approximate maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Tadashi Wadayama , Satoshi Takabe

A practical rate-matching system for constructing rate-compatible polar codes is proposed. The proposed polar code circular buffer rate-matching is suitable for transmissions on communication channels that support hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa El-Khamy , Hsien-Ping Lin , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

We consider time varying MIMO fading channels with known spatial and temporal correlation and solve the problem of joint carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation with prior distributions. The maximum a posteriori probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ibrahim Khalife , Ali Abbasi , Zhe Feng , Mingda Zhou , Xinming Huang , Youjian Liu

A reduced complexity sequential decoding algorithm for polar (sub)codes is described. The proposed approach relies on a decomposition of the polar (sub)code being decoded into a number of outer codes, and on-demand construction of codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Nikolay Iakuba , Stanislav Rets , Kirill Ivanov , Peter Trifonov

In this paper, we consider quantized decoding of LDPC codes on the binary symmetric channel. The binary message passing algorithms, while allowing extremely fast hardware implementation, are not very attractive from the perspective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lucile Sassatelli , Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Bane Vasic , David Declercq

In the Shannon lecture at the 2019 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ar{\i}kan proposed to employ a one-to-one convolutional transform as a pre-coding step before the polar transform. The resulting codes of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Andreas Burg , Emanuele Viterbo

Observable convolutional codes defined over Zpr with the Predictable Degree Property admit minimal input/state/output representations that preserve structural properties under scalar restriction. We make use of this fact to present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ángel Luis Muñoz Castañeda , Noemí Decastro-García , Miguel V. Carriegos

This work develops a rate-distortion-based approach to stochastic Chase decoding of algebraic codes over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels, replacing the heuristics traditionally used to determine flip probabilities with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Amit Berman , Ariel Doubchak , Uri Erez , Tal Philosof , Ilya Shapir

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Pascal Giard , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Gabi Sarkis , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

Consider binary linear codes obtained from bipartite graphs as follows. There are~\(k \geq 1\) left nodes each representing a message bit and there are~\(m = m(k)\) right nodes each representing a parity bit, generated from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

Reed-Muller (RM) and polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving channel coding schemes with the same factor graph representation. Low-complexity decoding algorithms fall short in providing a good error-correction performance for RM and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross