Title :
Controlled polarization for q-ary alphabets
Author :
Woomyoung Park ; Barg, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Samsung Electron., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
We design polar codes for q-ary input, q = 2r, that polarize to an arbitrary given subset of extremal configurations out of the original triangular array of r +1 such configurations. We also obtain a new proof of the known result about 2-level polarization of q-ary codes.
Keywords :
binary codes; channel coding; polarisation; random processes; 2-level polarization; controlled polarization; extremal configurations; polar codes; q-ary alphabets; q-ary codes; q-ary input; triangular array; Channel capacity; Convergence; Educational institutions; Kernel; Random variables; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620438