Polar Codes: A Non-Trivial Approach to Channel Coding

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 d...