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Polar codes were introduced in 2009 and proven to achieve the symmetric capacity of any binary-input discrete memoryless channel under low-complexity successive cancellation decoding. In this thesis, we construct cyclic polar codes based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Narayanan Rengaswamy

Polar codes were introduced by Arikan in 2008 and are the first family of error-correcting codes achieving the symmetric capacity of an arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channel under low complexity encoding and using an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Abdulla Eid , Iwan Duursma

Developing computationally-efficient codes that approach the Shannon-theoretic limits for communication and compression has long been one of the major goals of information and coding theory. There have been significant advances towards this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda , Andrew Barron

The prevailing opinion in industry and academia is that polar codes are competitive for short code lengths, but can no longer keep up with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as block length increases. This view is typically based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Felix Krieg , Marvin Rübenacke , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink

Polar codes are the first class of constructive channel codes achieving the symmetric capacity of the binary-input discrete memoryless channels. But the analysis and construction of polar codes involve the complex iterative-calculation. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kai Niu , Yan Li , Weiling Wu

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

ABS+ polar codes are a generalization of Arikan polar codes that provides much faster polarization. We present an LLR-domain version of the SCL decoder of ABS+ polar codes. Furthermore, we optimize the SCL algorithm in order to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mikhail Chernikov , Peter Trifonov

Simulation results illustrating the performance and complexity of the sequential successive cancellation decoding algorithm are presented for the case of polar subcodes with Arikan and large kernels, as well as for extended BCH\ codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Peter Trifonov

The polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 achieve the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying the unreliable synthetic channels, generated by Arikan…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

Finding fast polarizing transforms is an important problem as polar codes suffer from slow finitelength performance. This paper considers non binary polar codes for transmission over the AWGN channel and designs polarizing transforms with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Sinan Kahraman

The definition of polar codes given by Arikan is explicit, but the construction complexity is an issue. This is due to the exponential growth in the size of the output alphabet of the bit-channels as the codeword length increases. Tal and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Arash Ghayoori , T. Aaron Gulliver

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

In this paper, we propose a new class of nonbinary polar codes with two-stage polarization for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), where the outer (symbol-level) polarization is achieved by using a 2X2 q-ary matrix [1 0;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Peiyao Chen , Baoming Bai , Xiao Ma

Polar codes are constructed based on the reliability of sub-channels resulting from the polarization effect. However, this information-theoretic construction approach leads to a poor weight distribution. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Polar codes are high density parity check codes and hence the sparse factor graph, instead of the parity check matrix, has been used to practically represent an LP polytope for LP decoding. Although LP decoding on this polytope has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Veeresh Taranalli , Paul H. Siegel

In this paper, we present an iterative construction of a polar code and develop properties of the dual of a polar code. Based on this approach, belief propagation of a polar code can be presented in the context of low-density parity check…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Marc Fossorier

Achieving information-theoretic security using explicit coding scheme in which unlimited computational power for eavesdropper is assumed, is one of the main topics is security consideration. It is shown that polar codes are capacity…

We prove polarization theorems for arbitrary classical-quantum (cq) channels. The input alphabet is endowed with an arbitrary Abelian group operation and an Ar{\i}kan-style transformation is applied using this operation. It is shown that as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Rajai Nasser , Joseph M. Renes

The construction of polar codes with code length $n=2^m$ involves $m$ layers of polar transforms. In this paper, we observe that after each layer of polar transforms, one can swap certain pairs of adjacent bits to accelerate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Guodong Li , Min Ye , Sihuang Hu

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