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Polar code (coding theory)

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In information theory, a polar code is a linear block error correcting code developed by Erdal Arıkan [1]. It is the first code to provably achieve the channel capacity for symmetric binary-input, discrete, memoryless channels (B-DMC).

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References

  1. ^ E. Arikan, "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.