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Visible light communication (VLC) could provide short-range optical wireless communication together with illumination using LED lighting. However, conventional forward error correction (FEC) codes for reliable communication do not have the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Junbin Fang , Zhen Che , Xiaolong Yu , Zhe Chen , Zoe L. Jiang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Kui Ren , Xiaoqing Tan

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

In this paper, we highlight the class of spatially coupled codes and discuss their applicability to long-haul and submarine optical communication systems. We first demonstrate how to optimize irregular spatially coupled LDPC codes for their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Laurent Schmalen , Detlef Suikat , Detlef Rösener , Vahid Aref , Andreas Leven , Stephan ten Brink

Future wireless applications such as high definition video streaming, wireless cloud radio access networks, and cellular data offload are bandwidth-hungry, which highlights the need for Wi-Fi links exceeding 1 Gb/s. This article discusses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 A. G. D. Uchoa , R. C. de Lamare

We describe a novel approach to interpret a polar code as a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-like code with an underlying sparse decoding graph. This sparse graph is based on the encoding factor graph of polar codes and is suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Sebastian Cammerer , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink

This work presents the design and implementation of a real-time network coding system integrated into the IP layer of a 5G testbed, offering an alternative to conventional retransmission-based reliability mechanisms such as ARQ and HARQ.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Laura Landon , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Junmo Sung , Muriel Médard

Arikan's Polar codes attracted much attention as the first efficiently decodable and capacity achieving codes. Furthermore, Polar codes exhibit an exponentially decreasing block error probability with an asymptotic error exponent upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Andrew James Ferris , Christoph Hirche , David Poulin

For finite length polar codes, channel polarization leaves a significant number of channels not fully polarized. Adding a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to better protect information on the semi-polarized channels has already been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-14 A. Elkelesh , M. Ebada , S. Cammerer , S. ten Brink

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

Polar-coded multiple-input multiple-output systems are investigated. An advanced receiver implementing joint list decoding of polar codes and QR- and MMSE-based detectors is proposed. The approximate and exact path metrics are derived for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liudmila Karakchieva , Peter Trifonov

Codebooks have been indispensable for wireless communication standard since the first release of the Long-Term Evolution in 2009. They offer an efficient way to acquire the channel state information (CSI) for multiple antenna systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ziao Qin , Haifan Yin

In this paper, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a column-weight-three LDPC code to correct three errors when decoded using Gallager A algorithm. We then provide a construction technique which results in a code satisfying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shashi Kiran Chilappagari , Anantha Raman Krishnan , Bane Vasic

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

We initiate the probabilistic analysis of linear programming (LP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Specifically, we show that for a random LDPC code ensemble, the linear programming decoder of Feldman et al. succeeds in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Constantinos Daskalakis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Richard M. Karp , Martin J. Wainwright

We propose a two-layer coding architecture for communication of multiple users over a shared slotted medium enabling joint collision resolution and decoding. Each user first encodes its information bits with an outer code for reliability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Farshad Lahouti , Victoria Kostina

A new permutation decoding approach for polar codes is presented. The complexity of the algorithm is similar to that of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder, while it can be implemented with the latency of a successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

With the ever-growing storage density, high-speed, and low-cost data access, flash memory has inevitably become popular. Multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory, which can well balance the data density and memory stability, has occupied…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Haochuan Song , Frankie Fu , Cloud Zeng , Jin Sha , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

Typically, forward error correction (FEC) codes are designed based on the minimization of the error rate for a given code rate. However, for applications that incorporate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol and adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Hossein Khoshnevis , Ian Marsland , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes, where single parity-check constraints on the code bits are replaced with generalized constraints (an arbitrary linear code), are a promising class of codes for low-latency communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Roxana Smarandache , David G. M. Mitchell , Anthony Gómez-Fonseca

It is shown that polar coding schemes achieve the known achievable rate regions for several multi-terminal communications problems including lossy distributed source coding, multiple access channels and multiple descriptions coding. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan