A Novel Scheme of Product Polar Codes with High Efficiency and Rate Compatibility

Table 1

Minimum weight specifications of polar codes with rates 1/2 and 1/4.

Polar code		Polar code
(8, 4)	4 (14)	(8, 2)	4 (2)
(16, 8)	4 (28)	(16, 4)	8 (14)
(32, 16)	4 (8)	(32, 8)	8 (12)
(64, 32)	8 (662)	(64, 16)	16 (364)
(128, 64)	8 (1724)	(128, 32)	16
(256, 128)	8 (2330)	(256, 64)	16
(512, 256)	8	(512, 128)	32
(1024, 512)	8	(1024, 256)	32
(2048, 1024)	16	(2048, 512)	64
(4096, 2048)	16	(4096, 1024)	64
(8192, 4096)	16	(8192, 2048)	64