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Product codes are widespread in optical communications, thanks to their high throughput and good error-correction performance. Systematic polar codes have been recently considered as component codes for product codes. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Valerio Bioglio , Carlo Condo , Ingmar Land

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

We consider the problem of polar coding for transmission over $m$-user multiple access channels. In the proposed scheme, all users encode their messages using a polar encoder, while a joint successive cancellation decoder is deployed at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

The recently-discovered polar codes are seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory; they provably achieve the theoretical capacity of discrete memoryless channels using the low complexity successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Camille Leroux , Alexandre J. Raymond , Gabi Sarkis , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

The interest in polar codes has been increasing significantly since their adoption for use in the 5$^{\rm th}$ generation wireless systems standard. Successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm has low implementation complexity, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Furkan Ercan , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

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

A generalization of the polar coding scheme called mixed-kernels is introduced. This generalization exploits several homogeneous kernels over alphabets of different sizes. An asymptotic analysis of the proposed scheme shows that its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Noam Presman , Ofer Shapira , Simon Litsyn

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

We present a rate-compatible polar coding scheme that achieves the capacity of any family of channels. Our solution generalizes the previous results [1], [2] that provide capacity-achieving rate-compatible polar codes for a degraded family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Ivana Marić , Dennis Hui , Song-Nam Hong

Owing to their capacity-achieving performance and low encoding and decoding complexity, polar codes have drawn much research interests recently. Successive cancellation decoding (SCD) and belief propagation decoding (BPD) are two common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Syed Mohsin Abbas , YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Polar codes attract more and more attention of researchers in recent years, since its capacity achieving property. However, their error-correction performance under successive cancellation (SC) decoding is inferior to other modern channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-11 Yu Wang , Lirui Chen , Qinglin Wang , Yang Zhang , Zuocheng Xing

It is known that polar codes can be efficiently constructed for binary-input channels. At the same time, existing algorithms for general input alphabets are less practical because of high complexity. We address the construction problem for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Talha Cihad Gulcu , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

In this paper, we shed light on how an adaptive, efficient error coding in the transport layer helps ensure the application requirements. We recap the use of MDS codes and show that binary coding can significantly reduce the complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Pablo Gil Pereira , Thorsten Herfet

Polar codes asymptotically achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels, yet their error-correcting performance under successive-cancellation (SC) decoding for short and moderate length codes is worse than that of other modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Gabi Sarkis , Pascal Giard , Alexander Vardy , Claude Thibeault , Warren J. Gross

We introduce a new family of CSS codes obtained from rate-1 precoded polar codes, which harnesses the precoding benefits obtained for classical short blocklength polar codes. We optimize the rate profile and precoder of these codes with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tyler Kann , Shrinivas Kudekar , Matthieu R. Bloch

Motivated by the need for channel codes with low-complexity soft-decision decoding algorithms, we consider the recursive Plotkin concatenation of optimal low-rate and high-rate codes based on simplex codes and their duals. These component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Zunker , Marvin Rübenacke , Stephan ten Brink

$2^m$-ary modulation creates $m$ bit channels which are neither independent nor identical, and this causes problems when applying polar coding because polar codes are designed for independent identical channels. Different from the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Kangjian Qin , Zhaoyang Zhang

Polar codes are newly discovered capacity-achieving codes, which have attracted lots of research efforts. Polar codes can be efficiently decoded by the low-complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm and the SC list (SCL) decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

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

A framework is proposed that allows for a joint description and optimization of both binary polar coding and $2^m$-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) schemes such as multilevel coding (MLC) and bit-interleaved coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Mathis Seidl , Andreas Schenk , Clemens Stierstorfer , Johannes B. Huber