Joint Source-Channel Polar-Coded Modulation

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the joint design and optimization of source-channel polar coding with 2m-ary transmission. A joint framework is proposed which includes a source polar code to compress the redundant source, followed by a set of component polar codes over a 2m-ary modulation to protect the source against errors and achieve increased spectral efficiency. We prove that our scheme suffices to achieve the theoretical limit of source-channel separation theorem. For finite-length cases, a joint decoder that exploits both the residual redundancy and channel characteristics is also derived to further reduce the error rate. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the scheme.

Publication
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Jincheng Dai
Jincheng Dai
Supervisor
Kai Niu
Kai Niu
Professor