A H-ARQ scheme for polar codes

We consider the problem of supporting H-ARQ with polar codes. For supporting H-ARQ, we propose to create redundancy versions based on different, but equivalent, subsets of a polar code. The equivalent subsets are created from an initial subset of a polar code using an inherent symmetry in polar code construction. A greedy construction is used to create the initial subset of a polar code. We demonstrate performance of proposed constructions via simulations for binary input AWGN channel. We demonstrate that a (4096, 1024) polar code can be divided into two disjoint (2048, 1024) subset polar codes, which when decoded individually are within 0.2 dB (at 1% BLER) of a (2048, 1024) polar code, and achieve performance of a (4096, 1024) polar code when decoded jointly.