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Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

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…

A general method of coding over expansion is proposed,which allows one to reduce the highly non-trivial problems of coding over analog channels and compressing analog sources to a set of much simpler subproblems, coding over discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kumar Appaiah , Sriram Vishwanath

We compare three secrecy-coding schemes for the degraded wiretap binary symmetric channel (BSC) in the finite-blocklength regime: (i) polar wiretap coset codes, (ii) PAC codes used as wiretap coset codes, and (iii) the invertible-extractor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jaswanthi Mandalapu , Andrew Thangaraj

A polar coding scheme for fading channels is proposed in this paper. More specifically, the focus is Gaussian fading channel with a BPSK modulation technique, where the equivalent channel could be modeled as a binary symmetric channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

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

Achieving security against adversaries with unlimited computational power is of great interest in a communication scenario. Since polar codes are capacity achieving codes with low encoding-decoding complexity and they can approach perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Amirsina Torfi , Sobhan Soleymani , Siamak Aram , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

The polarization decomposition of arbitrary binary-input memoryless channels (BMCs) is studied in this work. By introducing the polarization factor (PF), defined in terms of the conditional entropy of the channel output under various input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Tianfu Qi , Jun Wang

Ar{\i}kan's polar coding technique is based on the idea of synthesizing $n$ channels from the $n$ instances of the physical channel by a simple linear encoding transformation. Each synthesized channel corresponds to a particular input to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter , S. Hamed Hassani

This paper presents the first proof of polarization for the deletion channel with a constant deletion rate and a regular hidden-Markov input distribution. A key part of this work involves representing the deletion channel using a trellis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ido Tal , Henry D. Pfister , Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy

An algorithm is presented for approximating a single-user channel with a prime input alphabet size. The result is an upgraded version of the channel with a reduced output alphabet size. It is shown that this algorithm can be used to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-06 Arash Ghayoori , T. Aaron Gulliver

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, polar codes for the $m$-user multiple access channel (MAC) with binary inputs are constructed. It is shown that Ar{\i}kan's polarization technique applied individually to each user transforms independent uses of a $m$-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Emmanuel Abbe , Emre Telatar

This paper is devoted to the finite-length analysis of turbo decoding over the binary erasure channel (BEC). The performance of iterative belief-propagation (BP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the BEC can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Eirik Rosnes , Øyvind Ytrehus

Fast SC decoding overcomes the latency caused by the serial nature of the SC decoding by identifying new nodes in the upper levels of the SC decoding tree and implementing their fast parallel decoders. In this work, we first present a novel…

Polar codes are constructed for m-user multiple access channels (MAC) whose input alphabet size is a prime number. The block error probability under successive cancelation decoding decays exponentially with the square root of the block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-09 Rajai Nasser

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

In this work, we introduce $\beta$-expansion, a notion borrowed from number theory, as a theoretical framework to study fast construction of polar codes based on a recursive structure of universal partial order (UPO) and polarization weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Gaoning He , Jean-Claude Belfiore , Xiaocheng Liu , Yiqun Ge , Ran Zhang , Ingmar Land , Ying Chen , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Ganghua Yang , Wen Tong

Polar codes have gained significant attention in channel coding for their ability to approach the capacity of binary input discrete memoryless channels (B-DMCs), thanks to their reliability and efficiency in transmission. However, existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jiaxing Li , Shuwen Zhang , Zhisong Bie

This study examines multilevel channel polarization for a certain class of erasure channels that the input alphabet size is an arbitrary composite number. We derive limiting proportions of partially noiseless channels for such a class. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata , Hiroshi Fujisaki