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We consider the problem of polar coding for transmission over $m$-user multiple access channels. In the proposed scheme, all users encode their messages using a polar encoder, while a joint successive cancellation decoder is deployed at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Polar codes represent one of the major recent breakthroughs in coding theory and, because of their attractive features, they have been selected for the incoming 5G standard. As such, a lot of attention has been devoted to the development of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke , Warren J. Gross

Polar-coded multiple-input multiple-output systems are investigated. An advanced receiver implementing joint list decoding of polar codes and QR- and MMSE-based detectors is proposed. The approximate and exact path metrics are derived for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liudmila Karakchieva , Peter Trifonov

In this paper, we propose a construction for multi-kernel polar codes based on the maximization of the minimum distance. Compared to the original construction based on density evolution, our new design shows particular advantages for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Valerio Bioglio , Frederic Gabry , Ingmar Land , Jean-Claude Belfiore

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 and Polar code are widely considered as major breakthroughs in coding theory because they have shown promising features for future wireless standards. The main drawbacks of Polar code are high-latency in decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Dinh-Dung Le , Thi-Hong Tran , Takashi Nakada , Yasuhiko Nakashima

We present a method of constructing rate-compatible polar codes that are capacity-achieving with low-complexity sequential decoders. The proposed code construction allows for incremental retransmissions at different rates in order to adapt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Song-Nam Hong , Dennis Hui , Ivana Marić

A decoding algorithm for polar codes with binary 16$\times$16 kernels with polarization rate 0.51828 and scaling exponents 3.346 and 3.450 is presented. The proposed approach exploits the relationship of the considered kernels and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Grigorii Trofimiuk , Peter Trifonov

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

Polar codes are constructed for m-user multiple access channels (MAC) whose input alphabet size is a prime number. The block error probability under successive cancelation decoding decays exponentially with the square root of the block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-09 Rajai Nasser

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 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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Kai Niu , Jincheng Dai , Kai Chen , Jiaru Lin , Q. T. Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Similar to existing codes, puncturing and shortening are two general ways to obtain an arbitrary code length and code rate for polar codes. When some of the coded bits are punctured or shortened, it is equivalent to a situation in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Wei Song , Yifei Shen , Liping Li , Kai Niu , Chuan Zhang

As the first kind of forward error correction (FEC) codes that achieve channel capacity, polar codes have attracted much research interest recently. Compared with other popular FEC codes, polar codes decoded by list successive cancellation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-02 ChenYang Xia , Ji Chen , YouZhe Fan , Chi-ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

Polar codes are a class of error-correcting codes that provably achieve the capacity of practical channels under the low-complexity successive-cancellation flip (SCF) decoding algorithm. However, the SCF decoding algorithm has a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Pascal Giard

Tailoring polar code construction for decoding algorithms beyond successive cancellation has remained a topic of significant interest in the field. However, despite the inherent nested structure of polar codes, the use of sequence models in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , S Ashwin Hebbar , Heping Wan , Joonyoung Cho , Charlie Zhang

Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiajie Li , Sihui Shen , Warren J. Gross

Node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention in wireless communications for its significant reduction in decoding latency, particularly with 5G New Radio (NR) polar codes. However, the existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuqing Ren , Leyu Zhang , Ludovic Damien Blanc , Yifei Shen , Xinwei Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Chuan Zhang , Andreas Burg

Fast SC decoding overcomes the latency caused by the serial nature of the SC decoding by identifying new nodes in the upper levels of the SC decoding tree and implementing their fast parallel decoders. In this work, we first present a novel…

Polar codes have attracted the attention of academia and industry alike in the past decade, such that the 5$^\text{th}$ generation wireless systems (5G) standardization process of the 3$^\text{th}$ generation partnership project (3GPP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Valerio Bioglio , Carlo Condo , Ingmar Land