Stark, MaximilianMaximilianStarkShah, AizazAizazShahBauch, GerhardGerhardBauch2019-04-302019-04-302018-05-292018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops, WCNCW 2018 : 7-12 (2018-05-29)http://hdl.handle.net/11420/2563The provably capacity-achieving error-correction capability of polar codes prospered huge interest in academia and industry. The explicit structure of polar codes leads to a different notion of code construction which refers to the assignment of information bits to certain positions in that structure instead of the design of the structure itself. State-of-the-art construction methods either rely on approximations or are computationally demanding to achieve an optimum assignment of the information bits. In this paper, we propose a novel construction technique which leverages the information bottleneck method to combine information-optimum construction and less complex, tractable processing of the required joint distributions. Furthermore, we consider the effect of a low-resolution channel quantizer explicitly in the code design which ensures applicability of the constructed code also in practically relevant settings.enConference Paper10.1109/WCNCW.2018.8368978Other