An efficient secure channel coding scheme based on polar codes

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new framework for joint encryption encoding scheme based on polar codes, namely efficient and secure joint secret key encryption channel coding scheme. The issue of using new coding structure, i.e. polar codes in Rao-Nam (RN) like schemes is addressed. Cryptanalysis methods show that the proposed scheme has an acceptable level of security with a relatively smaller key size in comparison with the previous works. The results indicate that the scheme provides an efficient error performance and benefits from a higher code rate which can approach the channel capacity for large enough polar codes. The most important property of the proposed scheme is that if we increase the block length of the code, we can have a higher code rate and higher level of security without significant changes in the key size of the scheme. The resulting characteristics of the proposed scheme make it suitable for high-speed communications, such as deep space communication systems.