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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

The successive cancellation list decoder (SCL) is an efficient decoder for classical polar codes with low decoding error, approximating the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for small list sizes. Here we adapt the SCL to the task of decoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Joseph M. Renes

Polar encoding, described by Arikan in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, July 2009, was a milestone for telecommunications. A Polar code distributes information among high and low-capacity channels, showing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Geraldo A. Barbosa

Sphere decoding (SD) of polar codes is an efficient method to achieve the error performance of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. But the complexity of the conventional sphere decoder is still high, where the candidates in a target sphere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Kai Niu , Kai Chen , Jiaru Lin

For polar codes, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm significantly improves finite-length performance compared to SC decoding. SCL-flip decoding can further enhance the performance but the gain diminishes as code length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xianbin Wang , Huazi Zhang , Jiajie Tong , Jun Wang , Wen Tong

Polar codes are a new class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexity. Their low-complexity decoding algorithms rendering them attractive for use in software-defined radio applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Pascal Giard , Gabi Sarkis , Camille Leroux , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

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

In this paper we show a polar coding scheme for the deletion channel with a probability of error that decays roughly like $2^{-\sqrt{\Lambda}}$, where $\Lambda$ is the length of the codeword. That is, the same decay rate as that of seminal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Dar Arava , Ido Tal

For the polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009, the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

Channel polarization and Polar code are widely considered as major breakthroughs in coding theory because they have shown promising features for future wireless standards. The main drawbacks of Polar code are high-latency in decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Dinh-Dung Le , Thi-Hong Tran , Takashi Nakada , Yasuhiko Nakashima

Polar codes are a class of linear error-correction codes that have received a lot of attention due to their ability to achieve channel capacity in an arbitrary binary discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) with low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ilshat Sagitov , Charles Pillet , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Pascal Giard

We show that polar codes can be used to achieve the rate-distortion functions in the problem of hierarchical source coding also known as the successive refinement problem. We also analyze the distributed version of this problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

This paper deals with two main issues regarding the short polar codes: the potential of FEC-assisted decoding and optimal code concatenation strategies under various design scenarios. Code concatenation and FEC-assisted decoding are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Mohammad Sadegh Mohammadi , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Qi Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of polar coding for block fading channels, with emphasis on those with instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at neither the transmitter nor the receiver. Our approach is to decompose a block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Mengfan Zheng , Meixia Tao , Wen Chen , Cong Ling

Polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 are the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying unreliable synthetic channels in polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

In this paper, we study the connection between polar codes and product codes. Our analysis shows that the product of two polar codes is again a polar code, and we provide guidelines to compute its frozen set on the basis of the frozen sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Hartmut Hafermann , Ingmar Land

The paper investigates the emerging field of low-complexity non-binary polar code (NB-PC) decoders. It shows that customizing each kernel of an NB-PC decoder through offline analysis can significantly reduce the overall decoding complexity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Joseph Jabbour , Ali Chamas Al-Ghouwayel , Emmanuel Boutillon

Flexibility is one mandatory aspect of channel coding in modern wireless communication systems. Among other things, the channel decoder has to support several code lengths and code rates. This need for flexibility applies to polar codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Mathieu Léonardon , Adrien Cassagne , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jégo , Louis-Philippe Hamelin , Yvon Savaria

Polar codes are considered the latest major breakthrough in coding theory. Polar codes were introduced by Ar{\i}kan in 2008. In this letter, we show that the binary polar codes are the same as the optimized codes for bitwise multistage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Mostafa El-Khamy , Hsien-Ping Lin , Jungwon Lee