Polar code scheme selection based on receiver decoding capability

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In polar coding, some bits channels have a higher reliability and other bit channels have a lower reliability. Data may be transmitted on some of the bit channels, and frozen values known to both the receiver and transmitter may be transmitted on the remaining bit channels. The performance of different polar code schemes (e.g., which bit channels are frozen) may depend on the decoder the receiving device uses. A receiving device (e.g., a user equipment for downlink transmissions) may indicate a decoder or polar decoding capability to the transmitting device (e.g., the network entity for downlink transmissions), and the transmitting device may select and indicate to the receiving device a polar coding scheme based on the indicated decoder or decoding capability. The transmitting device may transmit a communication to the receiving device encoded in accordance with the indicated polar coding scheme.