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In this paper, we design explicit codes for strong coordination in two-node networks. Specifically, we consider a two-node network in which the action imposed by nature is binary and uniform, and the action to coordinate is obtained via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Matthieu R. Bloch , Laura Luzzi , Joerg Kliewer

Polar codes based on $2\times2$ non-binary kernels are discussed in this work. The kernel over $\text{GF}(q)$ is selected by maximizing the polarization effect and using Monte-Carlo simulation. Belief propagation (BP) and successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Peihong Yuan , Fabian Steiner

Polar codes have received increasing attention in the past decade, and have been selected for the next generation of wireless communication standard. Most research on polar codes has focused on codes constructed from a $2\times2$…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Gabriele Coppolino , Carlo Condo , Guido Masera , Warren J. Gross

We study faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel. To this end, we introduce a simple erasure-based fault model and we show that, under this model, polarization does not happen, meaning that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

We consider lossy source compression of a binary symmetric source using polar codes and the low-complexity successive encoding algorithm. It was recently shown by Arikan that polar codes achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Satish Babu Korada , Rudiger Urbanke

Coherent optical transmission systems naturally lead to a four dimensional (4D) signal space, i.e., two polarizations each with two quadratures. In this paper we derive an analytical model to quantify the impact of Kerr nonlinearity on such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Hami Rabbani , Mostafa Ayaz , Lotfollah Beygi , Gabriele Liga , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell , Magnus Karlsson

Polarization is an unprecedented coding technique in that it not only achieves channel capacity, but also does so at a faster speed of convergence than any other coding technique. This speed is measured by the ``scaling exponent'' and its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Iwan Duursma , Ryan Gabrys , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ting-Chun Lin , Hsin-Po Wang

Hypernetworks were recently shown to improve the performance of message passing algorithms for decoding error correcting codes. In this work, we demonstrate how hypernetworks can be applied to decode polar codes by employing a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

This paper investigates properties of polar codes that can be potentially useful in real-world applications. We start with analyzing the performance of finite-length polar codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC), while assuming belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Ali Eslami , H. Pishro-Nik

A scheme is proposed that combines probabilistic signal shaping with bit-metric decoding. The transmitter generates symbols according to a distribution on the channel input alphabet. The symbols are labeled by bit strings. At the receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Georg Böcherer

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, and they have been selected as part of the next generation wireless communication standard. Each polar code bit-channel is assigned a reliability value, used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

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

In this paper, we introduce stitched polar codes, a novel generalization of Ar{\i}kan's regular polar codes. Our core methodology reconfigures the fundamental polarization process by stitching additional structures to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuan Li , Zicheng Ye , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Wen Tong , Guiying Yan , Zhiming Ma

To advance Polar code design for 6G applications, we develop a reinforcement learning-based universal sequence design framework that is extensible and adaptable to diverse channel conditions and decoding strategies. Crucially, our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 David Kin Wai Ho , Arman Fazeli , Mohamad M. Mansour , Louay M. A. Jalloul

Different polar coding schemes are proposed for the memoryless degraded broadcast channel under different reliability and secrecy requirements: layered decoding and/or layered secrecy. In this setting, the transmitter wishes to send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jaume del Olmo , Javier R. Fonollosa

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

Sparse superposition codes were recently introduced by Barron and Joseph for reliable communication over the AWGN channel at rates approaching the channel capacity. The codebook is defined in terms of a Gaussian design matrix, and codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Cynthia Rush , Adam Greig , Ramji Venkataramanan

Polar codes are a class of {\bf structured} channel codes proposed by Ar{\i}kan based on the principle of {\bf channel polarization}, and can {\bf achieve} the symmetric capacity of any Binary-input Discrete Memoryless Channel (B-DMC). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yong Fang

In recent years, polar codes have been considered for communication systems that require high re-liability and ultra-low latency, such as sixth generation (6G) wireless communications. This paper presents simulation results showing that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Robert Morelos-Zaragoza , Jeffrey Ma

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