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Source polar coding is a potential solution for short blocklength-based low-latency key generation with limited sources, which is a critical aspect of six generation (6G) Internet of things. However, existing source coding schemes still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Lulu Song , Di Zhang , Tingting Zhang

We present a novel distributed computing framework that is robust to slow compute nodes, and is capable of both approximate and exact computation of linear operations. The proposed mechanism integrates the concepts of randomized sketching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

The general subject considered in this thesis is a recently discovered coding technique, polar coding, which is used to construct a class of error correction codes with unique properties. In his ground-breaking work, Ar{\i}kan proved that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Mine Alsan

The recently proposed Successive-Cancellation List Flip (SCLF) decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SC List (SCL) decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Grégoire Domer , Pascal Giard

We present a method of constructing rate-compatible polar codes that are capacity-achieving with low-complexity sequential decoders. The proposed code construction allows for incremental retransmissions at different rates in order to adapt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Song-Nam Hong , Dennis Hui , Ivana Marić

It is well known that to fulfill their full potential, the design of polar codes must be tailored to their intended decoding algorithm. While for successive cancellation (SC) decoding, information theoretically optimal constructions are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Marvin Geiselhart , Andreas Zunker , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

Low-density parity-check codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding are known to be well-performing for large block lengths. However, for short block lengths there is still a considerable gap between the performance of the BP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

We propose a self-supervised deep learning-based decoding scheme that enables one-shot decoding of polar codes. In the proposed scheme, rather than using the information bit vectors as labels for training the neural network (NN) through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huiying Song , Yihao Luo , Yuma Fukuzawa

Successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has been widely adopted for polar codes, which allows near maximum likelihood performance with sufficiently large list size. In this work, we show that, if the list size is $2^\gamma$, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Alexander Sauter , Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

Arikan's polar codes are capable of achieving the Shannon's capacity at a low encoding and decoding complexity, while inherently supporting rate adaptation. By virtue of these attractive features, polar codes have provided fierce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Zunaira Babar , Zeynep B. Kaykac Egilmez , Luping Xiang , Daryus Chandra , Robert G. Maunder , Soon Xin Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Polar codes were originally specified for codelengths that are powers of two. In many applications, it is desired to have a code that is not restricted to such lengths. Two common strategies of modifying the length of a code are shortening…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

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

Polar codes are a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so with low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and they…

We introduce a new family of polar-like codes, called Partially Polarized Polar (PPP) codes. PPP codes are constructed from conventional polar codes by selectively pruning polarization kernels, thereby modifying the synthesized bit-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arman Fazeli , Mohammad M. Mansour , Ziyuan Zhu , Louay Jalloul

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

The recently-discovered polar codes are widely seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory. These codes achieve the capacity of many important channels under successive cancellation decoding. Motivated by the rapid progress in the theory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Camille Leroux , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

Monotone chain polar codes generalize classical polar codes to multivariate settings, offering a flexible approach for achieving the entire admissible rate region in the distributed lossless coding problem. However, this flexibility also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zichang Ren , Chunhang Zheng , Dou Li , Yuping Zhao

This paper characterizes the latency of the simplified successive-cancellation (SSC) decoding scheme for polar codes under hardware resource constraints. In particular, when the number of processing elements $P$ that can perform SSC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Marco Mondelli , Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

Polar coding solutions demonstrate excellent performance under the list decoding that is challenging to implement in hardware due to the path sorting operations. As a potential solution to this problem, permutation decoding recently became…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kirill Ivanov , Rüdiger Urbanke

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