Achieving the Uniform Rate Region of Multiple Access Channels Using Polar Codes.
Hessam Mahdavifar, Mostafa El‐Khamy, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013
Designing polar codes for transmission over two-user multiple access channels is considered. In the proposed scheme, both users encode their messages using a polar encoder, while a joint successive cancellation decoder is deployed at the receiver. The encoding is done separately, while the codes are constructed jointly. This is done by treating the whole polar transformation on both users as a single polar transformation, wherein the multiple access channel (MAC) is regarded as one more level of polarization. We prove that our scheme achieves the whole uniform rate region by changing the decoding order in the joint successive cancellation decoder. Various simulation results over binary-additive Gaussian noise MAC are provided. At the end, a comparison is made with the existing results on polar codes for multiple access channels to emphasize the differences and the main advantages of our scheme.