Microwave seminar | 06 May 2024

Polar codes are a novel class of error correcting codes, which has already found its application in 5G mobile communication systems. The talk presents basic principles of polar coding, design, encoding and decoding techniques. Improved polar code constructions are also discussed.

Main paper/arXiv, related to the seminar, and other references:

• E. Arıkan, “Channel polarization: A method for constructing capacity achieving codes for symmetric binary-input memoryless channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 3051–3073, July 2009.
• P. Trifonov, “Efficient design and decoding of polar codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 3221 – 3227, November 2012.
• I. Tal and A. Vardy, “List decoding of polar codes,” IEEE Transactions On Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 2213–2226, May 2015
• S. B. Korada, E. Sasoglu, and R. Urbanke, “Polar codes: Characterization of exponent, bounds, and constructions,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6253–6264, December 2010.
• P. Trifonov and V. Miloslavskaya, “Polar subcodes,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 254–266, February 2016.