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Polar codes provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a memoryless channel while having an explicit construction. This work aims to increase the throughput of polar decoder hardware by an order of magnitude relative to the state of the art…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

This paper presents a new class of sparse superposition codes for low-rates and short-packet communications over the additive white Gaussian noise channel. The new code is orthogonal sparse superposition (OSS) code. A codeword of OSS codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yunseo Nam , Jeonghun Park , Songnam Hong , Namyoon Lee

Polar codes have become one of the most favorable capacity achieving error correction codes (ECC) along with their simple encoding method. However, among the very few prior successive cancellation (SC) polar decoder designs, the required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Chuan Zhang , Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

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

We consider the compound capacity of polar codes under successive cancellation decoding for a collection of binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channels. By deriving a sequence of upper and lower bounds, we show that in general the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-21 S. Hamed Hassani , Satish Babu Korada , Ruediger Urbanke

The paper presents bounds on the achievable rates and the decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. It is assumed that the communication of these codes takes place over statistically independent parallel channels where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

We propose a method for modifying orthogonal sparse matrix pairs used in CSS codes while preserving their matrix row and column weight distributions, which play a crucial role in determining the performance of belief-propagation decoding.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Koki Okada , Kenta Kasai

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

We recently proved threshold saturation for spatially coupled sparse superposition codes on the additive white Gaussian noise channel. Here we generalize our analysis to a much broader setting. We show for any memoryless channel that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Jean Barbier , Mohamad Dia , Nicolas Macris

We propose the use of certain low-density generator-matrix (LDGM) codes as syndrome measurement (SM) codes for quantum low-density parity check (QLDPC) codes. We use an efficient progressive-edge-growth-like algorithm to create LDGM SM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Eren Guttentag , Anthony Gómez-Fonseca

Since its invention, polar code has received a lot of attention because of its capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

We show that given $n$ and $k$, for $q$ sufficiently large, there always exists an $[n, k]_q$ MDS code that has a generator matrix $G$ satisfying the following two conditions: (C1) Sparsest: each row of $G$ has Hamming weight $n - k + 1$;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Zheng Dong , Chau Yuen

Polar codes are usually constructed by ranking synthetic bit-channels according to reliability, which guarantees capacity-achieving behavior but can yield poor low-weight spectra at short and moderate lengths. Recent algebraic results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohammad Rowshan , Vlad-Florin Dragoi

Protograph low-density-parity-check (LDPC) are considered to design near-capacity low-rate codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC) and binary additive white Gaussian noise (BIAWGN) channel. For protographs with degree-one variable nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Andrew Thangaraj

In this article we present a construction of error correcting codes, that have representation as very sparse matrices and belong to the class of Low Density Parity Check Codes. LDPC codes are in the classical Hamming metric. They are very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Monika Polak , Eustrat Zhupa

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

In this paper, we study polar codes from a practical point of view. In particular, we study concatenated polar codes and rate-compatible polar codes. First, we propose a concatenation scheme including polar codes and Low-Density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Ali Eslami , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Recent works showed how low-density parity-check (LDPC) erasure correcting codes, under maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, are capable of tightly approaching the performance of an ideal maximum-distance-separable code on the binary erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Michela Varrella , Balazs Matuz , Marco Chiani

Polar codes are a new class of block codes with an explicit construction that provably achieve the capacity of various communications channels, even with the low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm. Yet, the more…

Deep polar codes are pre-transformed polar codes that employ a multi-layered polar kernel transformation strategy to enhance code performance in short blocklength regimes. However, like conventional polar codes, their block length is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Geon Choi , Namyoon Lee