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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

This paper introduces techniques to construct binary polar source/channel codes based on the bit error probability of successive-cancellation decoding. The polarization lemma is reconstructed based on the bit error probability and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jun Muramatsu

Targeting high-throughput and low-power communications, we implement two successive cancellation (SC) decoders for polar codes. With $16nm$ ASIC technology, the area efficiency and energy efficiency are $4Tbps/mm^2$ and $0.63pJ/bit$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jiajie Tong , Xianbin Wang , Qifan Zhang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Wen Tong

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

For polar codes with short-to-medium code length, list successive cancellation decoding is used to achieve a good error-correcting performance. However, list pruning in the current list decoding is based on the sorting strategy and its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-30 YouZhe Fan , Ji Chen , ChenYang Xia , Chi-ying Tsui , Jie Jin , Hui Shen , Bin Li

Polar codes have been selected as the channel coding scheme for control channel in the fifth generation (5G) communication system thanks to their capacity achieving characteristics. However, the traditional polar codes support only codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hossein Rezaei , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Motivated by the need for channel codes with low-complexity soft-decision decoding algorithms, we consider the recursive Plotkin concatenation of optimal low-rate and high-rate codes based on simplex codes and their duals. These component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Zunker , Marvin Rübenacke , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper, we study polar codes from a practical point of view. In particular, we study concatenated polar codes and rate-compatible polar codes. First, we propose a concatenation scheme including polar codes and Low-Density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Ali Eslami , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Top-performance sources of photonic entanglement are an indispensable resource for many applications in quantum communication, most notably quantum key distribution. However, up to now, no source has been shown to simultaneously exhibit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Sebastian Philipp Neumann , Mirela Selimovic , Martin Bohmann , Rupert Ursin

Consider the problem of source coding in networks with multiple receiving terminals, each having access to some kind of side information. In this case, standard coding techniques are either prohibitively complex to decode, or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Chen Avin , Michael Borokhovich , Asaf Cohen , Zvi Lotker

Random linear network coding (RLNC) in theory achieves the max-flow capacity of multicast networks, at the cost of high decoding complexity. To improve the performance-complexity tradeoff, we consider the design of sparse network codes. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Ye Li , Wai-Yip Chan , Steven D. Blostein

We propose a new family of polar coding which realizes high coding gain, low complexity, and high throughput by introducing a protograph-based design. The proposed technique called as quasi-cyclic (QC) polar codes can be highly parallelized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Ye Wang

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an alternative way to design channel coding with affordable complexity. However, most existing studies can only learn codes for a given size and rate, typically defined by a fixed network architecture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Yukun Cheng , Wei Chen , Tianwei Hou , Geoffrey Ye Li , Bo Ai

A framework is proposed that allows for a joint description and optimization of both binary polar coding and the multilevel coding (MLC) approach for $2^m$-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM). The conceptual equivalence of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mathis Seidl , Andreas Schenk , Clemens Stierstorfer , Johannes B. Huber

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

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

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

Polar codes are a new family of error correction codes for which efficient hardware architectures have to be defined for the encoder and the decoder. Polar codes are decoded using the successive cancellation decoding algorithm that includes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Guillaume Berhault , Camille Leroux , Christophe Jego , Dominique Dallet

A pilot-assisted transmission (PAT) scheme is proposed for short blocklengths, where the pilots are used only to derive an initial channel estimate for the list construction step. The final decision of the message is obtained by applying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

We propose a new type of short to moderate block-length, linear error-correcting codes, called moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. The number of ones of the parity-check matrix of the codes presented is typically higher than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Samuel Ouzan , Yair Be'ery