• DocumentCode
    639994
  • Title

    Polarization of quasi-static fading channels

  • Author

    Boutros, Joseph J. ; Biglieri, Ezio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ. at Qatar Educ. City, Doha, Qatar
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    7-12 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    769
  • Lastpage
    773
  • Abstract
    This work investigates polar coding for block-fading channels. We show that polarization does occur at infinity for three types of channel multiplexers. Nevertheless, the polarization process is not unique, as it is shaped by the choice of the multiplexer. The fading-plane approach is used to study the outage behavior of polar coding at a fixed transmission rate. Two types of multiplexers are shown to provide full diversity at finite and infinite code length.
  • Keywords
    block codes; channel coding; fading channels; multiplexing equipment; channel multiplexers; fading-plane approach; fixed transmission rate; infinite code length; polar coding; quasistatic fading channel polarization process; Diversity reception; Encoding; Multiplexing; Mutual information; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • ISSN
    2157-8095
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620330
  • Filename
    6620330