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A polar-coded transmission (PCT) scheme with joint channel estimation and decoding is proposed for channels with unknown channel state information (CSI). The CSI is estimated via successive cancellation (SC) decoding and the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Peihong Yuan , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gerhard Kramer

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

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

We introduce a new family of polar-like codes, called Partially Polarized Polar (PPP) codes. PPP codes are constructed from conventional polar codes by selectively pruning polarization kernels, thereby modifying the synthesized bit-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arman Fazeli , Mohammad M. Mansour , Ziyuan Zhu , Louay Jalloul

Polar codes are widely used in modern communication systems due to their capacity-achieving properties. This paper investigates the importance of coded bits in the decoding process of polar codes and aims to determine which bits contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hossam Hassan , Ali Gaber , Mohammed Karmoose , Noha Korany

We consider classical-quantum (cq-)channels with memory, and establish that Ar{\i}kan-constructed polar codes achieve the classical capacity for two key noise models, namely for (i) qubit erasures and (ii) unital qubit noise with channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jaswanthi Mandalapu , Vikesh Siddhu , Krishna Jagannathan

Constructing efficient low-rate error-correcting codes with low-complexity encoding and decoding have become increasingly important for applications involving ultra-low-power devices such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. To this end,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Fariba Abbasi , Hessam Mahdavifar , Emanuele Viterbo

This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

In this paper, we investigate the optimal tradeoff between source and channel coding for channels with bit or packet erasure. Upper and Lower bounds on the optimal channel coding rate are computed to achieve minimal end-to-end distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sriram N. Kizhakkemadam , Panos Papamichalis , Mandyam Srinath , Dinesh Rajan

This paper introduces techniques to construct binary polar source/channel codes based on the bit error probability of successive-cancellation decoding. The polarization lemma is reconstructed based on the bit error probability and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jun Muramatsu

A modification to 5G New Radio (NR) polar code is proposed, which improves the error correction performance with higher order modulation through probabilistic shaping. The presented scheme mainly re-uses existing hardware at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Onurcan İşcan , Wen Xu

Polar codes are introduced for discrete memoryless broadcast channels. For $m$-user deterministic broadcast channels, polarization is applied to map uniformly random message bits from $m$ independent messages to one codeword while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Naveen Goela , Emmanuel Abbe , Michael Gastpar

Information-theoretic work for wiretap channels is mostly based on random coding schemes. Designing practical coding schemes to achieve information-theoretic security is an important problem. By applying the two recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

Scalar quantization and probabilistic shaping are applied to the distributed source coding of Gaussian sources, with mean-square error distortion. A coding scheme with a modulo interval, dithering, and truncated Gaussian shaping is shown to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Muhammed Yusuf Sener , Gerhard Kramer , Shlomo Shamai , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

In this paper, faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel is studied. To this end, a simple erasure-based fault model is introduced to represent errors in the decoder and it is shown that, under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

Over any discrete memoryless channel, we build codes such that: for one, their block error probabilities and code rates scale like random codes'; and for two, their encoding and decoding complexities scale like polar codes'. Quantitatively,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Hsin-Po Wang , Iwan Duursma

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

Polar coding, introduced 2008 by Arikan, is the first (very) efficiently encodable and decodable coding scheme whose information transmission rate provably achieves the Shannon bound for classical discrete memoryless channels in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Joseph M. Renes , Frederic Dupuis , Renato Renner

Polar codes are the latest breakthrough in coding theory, as they are the first family of codes with explicit construction that provably achieve the symmetric capacity of discrete memoryless channels. Ar{\i}kan's polar encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mostafa El-Khamy , Hessam Mahdavifar , Gennady Feygin , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang