Program

Start End Title Duration Presenters
9:00 10:30 Session 1
Keynote: VLSI Implementation of Polar Decoders 50 mins Warren Gross
Bit-permuted coded modulation for polar codes 20 mins Saurabha Tavildar
Efficient Polar Code Construction for Higher-Order Modulation 20 mins Georg Böcherer, Tobias Prinz, Peihong Yuan, and Fabian Steiner
10:45 12:15 Session 2
Keynote: The Design of Polar Code for 5G Standard 50 mins Wen Tong
Low-Complexity Puncturing and Shortening of Polar Codes 20 mins Valerio Bioglio, Frederic Gabry, and Ingmar Land
Polar Codes for Block Fading Channels 20 mins Shuiyin Liu, Yi Hong, and Emanuele Viterbo
13:45 15:15 Session 3
Keynote: News and Views on Polar Coding 50 mins Rüdiger Urbanke
On Efficient Decoding of Polar Codes with Large Kernels 20 mins Sarit Buzaglo, Arman Fazeli, Paul H. Siegel, Veeresh Taranalli, and  
Alexander Vardy
Star Polar Subcodes 20 mins Peter Trifonov
15:30 17:00 Session 4
Fast Simplified Successive-Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes 20 mins Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Carlo Condo, and Warren Gross
Low-complexity Receiver for Multi-Level Polar Coded Modulation in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access 20 mins Beatrice Tomasi, Frederic Gabry, Valerio Bioglio, Ingmar Land, and Jean-Claude Belfiore
A Comparison of Polar Decoders with Existing LDPC and Turbo Decoders 20 mins Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Pascal Giard, and Andreas Burg
Capacity-Achieving Rate-Compatible Polar Codes for General Channels 20 mins Marco Mondelli, Hamed Hassani, Ivana Marić, Dennis Hui, and SongNam Hong
Concluding panel discussion 10 mins