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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Gabi Sarkis , Ido Tal , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

The flexible-rate Polar-BCH product codes are experimentally demonstrated in a coherent passive optical network system with 16QAM for the first time. Using a new hybrid soft- and hard-decision decoder, we achieve a power gain of upto 1.75…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yifan Ye , Bin Chen , Xiang Li , Yi Lei , Zhiwei Liang , Qingqing Hu , Can Zhao , Yanni Ou

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

The fifth-generation (5G) of mobile standards is expected to provide ultra-reliability and low-latency communications (URLLC) for various applications and services, such as online gaming, wireless industrial control, augmented reality, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Faisal Nadeem , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, energy efficiency of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) schemes with statistical queuing constraints is studied for both constant-rate and random Markov arrivals by characterizing the minimum energy per bit and wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Yi Li , Gozde Ozcan , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

A multilevel coded modulation scheme is studied that uses solely binary polar codes and Honda-Yamamoto probabilistic shaping. The scheme is shown to achieve the capacity of discrete memoryless channels with input alphabets of cardinality a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Constantin Runge , Thomas Wiegart , Diego Lentner , Tobias Prinz

This paper presents a puncturing technique based on the channel polarization index for the design of rate-compatible polar codes in the fifth generation (5G) of wireless systems. The proposed strategy consists of two steps: we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 R. M. Oliveira , R. C. de Lamare

We propose a novel scheme for rate-compatible arbitrary-length polar code construction for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The proposed scheme is based on the concept of non-uniform channel polarization. The original polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 R. M. Oliveira , R. C. de Lamare

Terahertz (THz) communication is one of the most promising candidates to accommodate high-speed mobile data services. This paper proposes a secure hybrid automatic repeat request with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) aided THz communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yongkang Li , Ziyang Song , Zheng Shi , Qingping Dou , Hongjiang Lei , Jinming Wen , Junbin Fang

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

Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) schemes typically allocate all available resources to retransmit failed packets to ensure reliability. However, under stringent delay constraints, these schemes often exhibit low spectral efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Hongling Huang , Jintao Wang , Zheng Shi , Xu Wang , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma , Haichuan Ding

Polar codes have received growing attention in the past decade and have been selected as the coding scheme for the control channel in the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. However, the conventional polar codes have only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Hossein Rezaei , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Precoded polar product codes are proposed, where selected component codes enable successive cancellation list decoding to generate bit-wise soft messages efficiently for iterative decoding while targeting optimized distance spectrum as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Mathis Seidl , Johannes B. Huber

We investigate Early Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (E-HARQ) feedback schemes enhanced by machine learning techniques as a path towards ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). To this end, we propose machine learning methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Nils Strodthoff , Barış Göktepe , Thomas Schierl , Cornelius Hellge , Wojciech Samek

The polar codes are proven to be capacity-achieving and are shown to have equivalent or even better finite-length performance than the turbo/LDPC codes under some improved decoding algorithms over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Kai Chen , Kai Niu , Jiaru Lin

This letter studies the throughput and the outage probability of spectrum sharing networks utilizing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. We focus on the repetition time diversity and the incremental redundancy HARQ protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Behrooz Makki , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Thomas Eriksson

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

Recently, a new class of error-control codes, the polar codes, have attracted much attention. The polar codes are the first known class of capacity-achieving codes for many important communication channels. In addition, polar codes have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Xudong Ma