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Communications in highly dynamic channels relying on training-based channel estimation experience a trade-off between increasing channel measurement accuracy by sending more frequent training sequences and increasing data rate by sending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Duschia Bodet , Muriel Médard , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , Ken Duffy

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

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes, and they have been selected as part of the next generation wireless communication standard. Each polar code bit-channel is assigned a reliability value, used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

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

In this paper, we present an optimal metric function on average, which leads to a significantly low decoding computation while maintaining the superiority of the polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes' error-correction performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Mohsen Moradi

New algorithms for efficient decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC-augmented), transmitted over either a binary erasure channel (BEC) or an additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGNC), are presented. We start by presenting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yonatan Urman , Guy Mogilevsky , David Burshtein

Polar codes have received growing attention in the past decade and have been selected as the coding scheme for the control channel in the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. However, the conventional polar codes have only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Hossein Rezaei , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

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

Polar codes, introduced recently by Ar\i kan, are the first family of codes known to achieve capacity of symmetric channels using a low complexity successive cancellation decoder. Although these codes, combined with successive cancellation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-22 Nadine Hussami , Satish Babu Korada , Rudiger Urbanke

Slow fading broadcast channels can model a wide range of applications in wireless networks. Due to delay requirements and the unavailability of the channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), these channels for many applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Hossein Khoshnevis , Ian Marsland , Hamid Jafarkhani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Data center networks (DCNs) require a low-cost, low-power optical transceiver to handle increased traffic from generative artificial intelligence, video streaming services, and more. Improving the required signal-to-noise ratio (RSNR) by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Takeshi Kakizaki , Masanori Nakamura , Fukutaro Hamaoka , Shuto Yamamoto , Etsushi Yamazaki

Polar coding was conceived originally as a technique for boosting the cutoff rate of sequential decoding, along the lines of earlier schemes of Pinsker and Massey. The key idea in boosting the cutoff rate is to take a vector channel (either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Erdal Arıkan

A multilevel coded modulation scheme is studied that uses solely binary polar codes and Honda-Yamamoto probabilistic shaping. The scheme is shown to achieve the capacity of discrete memoryless channels with input alphabets of cardinality a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Constantin Runge , Thomas Wiegart , Diego Lentner , Tobias Prinz

We study coding schemes for error correction in interactive communications. Such interactive coding schemes simulate any $n$-round interactive protocol using $N$ rounds over an adversarial channel that corrupts up to $\rho N$ transmissions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

A rateless coding scheme transmits incrementally more and more coded bits over an unknown channel until all the information bits are decoded reliably by the receiver. We propose a new rateless coding scheme based on polar codes, and we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Bin Li , David Tse , Kai Chen , Hui Shen

This paper enhances the intra prediction by using multiple neural network modes (NM). Each NM serves as an end-to-end mapping from the neighboring reference blocks to the current coding block. For the provided NMs, we present two schemes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Heming Sun , Zhengxue Cheng , Masaru Takeuchi , Jiro Katto

The use of quantum computation for wireless network applications is emerging as a promising paradigm to bridge the performance gap between in-practice and optimal wireless algorithms. While today's quantum technology offers limited number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Srikar Kasi , John Kaewell , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Kyle Jamieson

Systematic polar codes are shown to outperform non-systematic polar codes in terms of the bit-error-rate (BER) performance. However theoretically the mechanism behind the better performance of systematic polar codes is not yet clear. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Liping Li , Wenyi Zhang , Yanjun Hu

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthesized message channel as an individual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Hongzhi Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

Polar codes are of great interest since they are the first provably capacity-achieving forward error correction codes. To improve throughput and to reduce decoding latency of polar decoders, maximum likelihood (ML) decoding units are used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Chenrong Xiong , Jun Lin , Zhiyuan Yan