Methods and apparatus for polar encoding information bits and bits indicating a version of an encoded codeword

Abstract

A polar code encoder is configured to: map q bits to q positions of q sub-channels, where q is a positive integer, and the q bits are used to indicate a version of encoded codeword; map K-q information bits to K-q positions for the K-q information bits, K is an integer, K>q; and perform polar encoding over an input vector u, comprising the q bits and the K-q information bits, with the length of N, N is an integer, N>=K and scramble with scrambling vector over the polar encoded bits, where the scrambling vector is associated to the q sub-channels or the scrambling vector is associated to a special frozen bit which is corresponding to the q sub-channels.