Overview
- Explains the philosophy of the polar encoding and decoding technique
- Develops the fundamental concepts from information theory
- Demonstrates successive cancellation decoding, the calculation of split channel capacities, and the channel polarization theorem
Part of the book series: Springer Topics in Signal Processing (STSP, volume 15)
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About this book
This book explains the philosophy of the polar encoding and decoding technique. Polar codes are one of the most recently discovered capacity-achieving channel codes. What sets them apart from other channel codes is the fact that polar codes are designed mathematically and their performance is mathematically proven.
The book develops related fundamental concepts from information theory, such as entropy, mutual information, and channel capacity. It then explains the successive cancellation decoding logic and provides the necessary formulas, moving on to demonstrate the successive cancellation decoding operation with a tree structure. It also demonstrates the calculation of split channel capacities when polar codes are employed for binary erasure channels, and explains the mathematical formulation of successive cancellation decoding for polar codes. In closing, the book presents and proves the channel polarization theorem, before mathematically analyzing the performance of polar codes.
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About the author
Orhan Gazi is an Associate Professor at the Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Cankaya University. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1996, 2001, and 2007 respectively. His research interests are chiefly in signal processing, information theory, and forward error correction. Most recently he has been studying polar channel codes and preparing publications in this area. Prof. Gazi has also authored several books on Signal Processing and Information Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polar Codes
Book Subtitle: A Non-Trivial Approach to Channel Coding
Authors: Orhan Gazi
Series Title: Springer Topics in Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0737-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0736-2Published: 20 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4488-6Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0737-9Published: 08 June 2018
Series ISSN: 1866-2609
Series E-ISSN: 1866-2617
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 170
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Coding and Information Theory