Abstract: Polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are a recently proposed novel coding scheme that introduces a rate-one convolutional pre-transform before the polar transform, offering ...

Abstract: Convolutionally precoded polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are a promising variant of polar codes for short block lengths ...

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