Distributed CRC-Assisted Polar Code Construction

-11. (canceled)

A method for use in a wireless receiver, the method comprising:

• receiving a set of polar encoded information bits and CRC bits from a wireless transmitter, wherein the set of information bits includes one or more subsets of information bits and each of the subsets of information bits is associated with extra cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits generated using a CRC polynomial capable of generating N CRC bits and wherein the extra CRC bits for each subset of information bits comprise less than N CRC bits, and the set of information bits is associated with a set of N or less CRC bits generated by the CRC polynomial;
• and
• polar decoding the set of coded bits using the one or more sets of extra CRC bits.

-34. (canceled)

A wireless receiver comprising processing circuitry operable to:

• receive a set of polar encoded information bits and CRC bits from a wireless transmitter, wherein the set of information bits includes one or more subsets of information bits and each of the subsets of information bits is associated with extra cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits generated using a CRC polynomial capable of generating N CRC bits and wherein the extra CRC bits for each subset of information bits comprise less than N CRC bits, and the set of information bits is associated with a set of N or less CRC bits generated by the CRC polynomial;
• and
• polar decode the set of coded bits using the one or more sets of extra CRC bits.

The wireless receiver of claim 33, wherein a number of extra CRC bits for each successive subset of the one or more subsets of information bits is greater than or equal to a number of extra CRC bits for a previous subset of the one or more subsets of information bits.

-48. (canceled)