IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China
11–13 August 2022 // Foshan City, China

Erdal Arıkan

Biography: Erdal Arıkan has been a member of the facuty at the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey since 1987. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1985. His main research interests are in error correction coding. For his work on polar coding, he was awarded the 2010 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award, the 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal, and the 2019 Shannon Speaker award. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Title: Polar Coding and Channel Coding Challenges for 6G

Abstract: We will discuss 6G channel coding challenges from the perspective of polar codes. In particular, we will discuss the suitability of polar codes for eMBB+ and uRLLC+ usage scenarios.