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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

The performance of short polar codes under successive cancellation (SC) and SC list (SCL) decoding is analyzed for the case where the decoder messages are coarsely quantized. This setting is of particular interest for applications requiring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Joachim Neu , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

In this paper, we propose a new polar coding scheme with molecular programming, which is capable of highly parallel implementation at a nano-scale without a need of electrical power sources. We designed chemical reaction networks (CRN) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Toshiki Matsumine , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Ye Wang

Under successive cancellation (SC) decoding, polar codes are inferior to other codes of similar blocklength in terms of frame error rate. While more sophisticated decoding algorithms such as list- or stack-decoding partially mitigate this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Orion Afisiadis , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiajie Li , Sihui Shen , Warren J. Gross

Polar codes are the latest breakthrough in coding theory, as they are the first family of codes with explicit construction that provably achieve the symmetric capacity of discrete memoryless channels. Ar{\i}kan's polar encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mostafa El-Khamy , Hessam Mahdavifar , Gennady Feygin , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

Polar codes have attracted the attention of numerous researchers in the past decade due to their excellent performance. However, their performance at short block lengths under standard successive cancellation decoding is far from desirable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Wei Zhang

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) leverages temporal abstraction to efficiently tackle complex long-horizon tasks. However, HRL often collapses because the continual updates of the low-level primitive make earlier sub-goals issued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Utsav Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

This paper presents a puncturing technique based on the channel polarization index for the design of rate-compatible polar codes in the fifth generation (5G) of wireless systems. The proposed strategy consists of two steps: we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 R. M. Oliveira , R. C. de Lamare

Polar codes is promising because they can provably achieve the channel capacity while having an explicit construction method. Lots of work have been done for the bit-based decoding algorithm for polar codes. In this paper, generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan

Polar codes provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. This assumes infinite precision arithmetic. Given the successive nature of the decoding algorithm, one might worry about the sensitivity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke

A successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder with limited list size for polar codes can not be analyzed as a successive cancellation (SC) decoder, nor as a maximum likelihood (ML) decoder, due to the complicated decoding errors caused by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Daiming Qu , Tao Jiang

Non-binary polar codes (NBPCs) decoded by successive cancellation (SC) algorithm have remarkable bit-error-rate performance compared to the binary polar codes (BPCs). Due to the serial nature, SC decoding suffers from large latency. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ali Farsiabi , Hamid Ebrahimzad , Masoud Ardakani , Chuandong Li

Due to the ability to provide superior error-correction performance, the successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm is widely regarded as one of the most promising decoding algorithms for polar codes with short-to-moderate code lengths.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yang Lu , Ming-Min Zhao , Ming Lei , Min-Jian Zhao

Even though polar codes were adopted in the latest 5G cellular standard, they still have the fundamental problem of high decoding latency. Aiming at solving this problem, a fast simplified successive cancellation (Fast-SSC) decoder based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Haotian Zheng , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Zizheng Cao , Ton Koonen

The decoding performance of polar codes strongly depends on the decoding algorithm used, while also the decoder throughput and its latency mainly depend on the decoding algorithm. In this work, we implement the powerful successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Sebastian Cammerer , Benedikt Leible , Matthias Stahl , Jakob Hoydis , Stephan ten Brink

Long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) decoding algorithm. But for polar codes with short and moderate code length, the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

A polar-coded transmission (PCT) scheme with joint channel estimation and decoding is proposed for channels with unknown channel state information (CSI). The CSI is estimated via successive cancellation (SC) decoding and the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Peihong Yuan , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gerhard Kramer

In the standard polar code construction, the message vector $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{n-1})$ is divided into information bits and frozen bits according to the reliability of each $U_i$ given $(U_0,U_1,\dots,U_{i-1})$ and all the channel outputs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guodong Li , Min Ye , Sihuang Hu

Polar codes under cyclic redundancy check aided successive cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding can outperform the turbo codes and the LDPC codes when code lengths are configured to be several kilobits. In order to reduce the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Kai Chen , Bin Li , Hui Shen , Jie Jin , David Tse