Publications

Books

• [B1] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, Polar Codes: From Theory to Practice, Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons and IEEE Press, 2025.

Journal Articles

• [J1] V. F. Dragoi and M. Rowshan, “On Weight Enumeration and Structure Characterization of Polar Codes via Group Actions,” under review for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025.

• [J2] M. Rowshan, V. F. Dragoi and J. Yuan, “Weight Structure of Low/High-Rate Polar Codes and Weight Contribution-based Partial Order,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2025.3616283.

• [J3] H. P. H. Shaw, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Improving OFDM Using Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3603197.

• [J4] M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Segmented GRAND: Complexity Reduction through Sub-pattern Combination,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3541094.

• [J5] M. Rowshan, M. Qiu, Y. Xie, X. Gu and J. Yuan, “Channel Coding Towards 6G: Technical Overview and Outlook,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3390000.

• [J6] V. F. Dragoi, M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “On the Closed-form Enumeration of Polar Codes; 1.5d-weight Codewords,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3394749.

• [J7] M. Rowshan, Son Hoang Dau and E. Viterbo, “On the Formation of Min-weight Codewords of Polar/PAC Codes and Its Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 7627–7649, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2023.3319015.

• [J8] M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “On the Minimum Weight Codewords of PAC Codes: The Impact of Pre-Transformation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 4, pp. 487–498, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSAIT.2023.3312678.

• [J9] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “Efficient Partial Rewind of Successive Cancellation-based Decoders for Polar Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 7160–7168, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2022.3207842.

• [J10] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “SC List-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes by Shifted Pruning: A General Approach,” Entropy, vol. 24, no. 9:1210, pp. 1–15, 2022, doi: 10.3390/e24091210.

• [J11] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “List Viterbi Decoding of PAC Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 2428–2435, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3059370.

• [J12] M. Rowshan, A. Burg and E. Viterbo, “Polarization-adjusted (PAC) Codes: Sequential Decoding vs. List Decoding,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1434–1447, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3052550.

• [J13] M. Rowshan, E. Viterbo, R. Micheloni and A. Marelli, “Repetition-assisted Decoding of Polar Codes,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 270–272, 2019, doi: 10.1049/el.2018.6940.

Conference Papers

• [C1] X. Gu, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “PAC Codes Meet CRC-Polar Codes,” to be presented at the Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2025.

• [C2] M. Rowshan and V. F. Dragoi, “Towards Weight Distribution-Aware Polar Codes,” to appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor, United States, June 2025.

• [C3] V. F. Dragoi and M. Rowshan, “On Polar Codes Weight Distribution,” to appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor, United States, June 2025.

• [C4] M. Rowshan, V. F. Dragoi and J. Yuan, “Weight Structure of Low/High-Rate Polar Codes and Its Applications,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024, pp. 2945–2950, doi: 10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619618.

• [C5] X. Gu, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Reverse PAC Codes: Look-ahead List Decoding,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, July 2024, pp. 2844–2849, doi: 10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619652.

• [C6] M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Low-Complexity GRAND by Segmentation,” GLOBECOM 2023 – IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 6145–6151, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10436895.

• [C7] X. Gu, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Improved Convolutional Precoder for PAC Codes,” GLOBECOM 2023 – IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 1836–1841, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437715.

• [C8] X. Gu, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “Rate-Compatible Shortened PAC Codes,” 2023 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), Dalian, China, Aug. 2023, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ICCCWorkshops57813.2023.10233795.

• [C9] H. P. H. Shaw, J. Yuan and M. Rowshan, “Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation by Leveraging the Ambiguity Function in OFDM Systems,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 307–313, doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283594.

• [C10] X. Gu, M. Rowshan and J. Yuan, “A Non-Uniform Quantization-Based Hardware Architecture for BP Decoding of Polar Codes,” 2023 22nd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), Sydney, Australia, 2023, pp. 363–368, doi: 10.1109/ISCIT57293.2023.10376101.

• [C11] M. Rowshan and J. H. Yuan, “Fast Enumeration of Minimum Weight Codewords for PAC Codes,” 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 255–260, doi: 10.1109/ITW54588.2022.9965901.

• [C12] M. Rowshan, Son Hoang Dau and E. Viterbo, “Improving the Error Coefficient of Polar Codes,” 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 249–254, doi: 10.1109/ITW54588.2022.9965852.

• [C13] M. Rowshan and J. H. Yuan, “Constrained Error Pattern Generation for GRAND,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Helsinki, Finland, July 2022, pp. 1767–1772, doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834343.

• [C14] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “On Convolutional Precoding in PAC Codes,” 2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2021, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/GCWkshps52748.2021.9681987.

• [C15] M. Rowshan, E. Viterbo, R. Micheloni and A. Marelli, “Logarithmic Non-uniform Quantization for List Decoding of Polar Codes,” 2021 IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), NV, USA, 2021, pp. 1161–1166, doi: 10.1109/CCWC51732.2021.9375932.

• [C16] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “Shifted-pruning for Path Recovery in List Decoding of Polar Codes,” 2021 IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), NV, USA, 2021, pp. 1179–1184, doi: 10.1109/CCWC51732.2021.9375833.

• [C17] M. Rowshan, A. Burg and E. Viterbo, “Complexity-efficient Fano Decoding of Polarization-adjusted Convolutional (PAC) Codes,” 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA), Kapolei, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 200–204.

• [C18] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “Improved List Decoding of Polar Codes by Shifted-pruning,” 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Visby, Sweden, 2019, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/ITW44776.2019.8989330.

• [C19] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “How to Modify Polar Codes for List Decoding,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, 2019, pp. 1772–1776, doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2019.8849539.

• [C20] M. Rowshan and E. Viterbo, “Stepped List Decoding for Polar Codes,” IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Signal Processing (ISTC), Hong Kong, Dec. 2018, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/ISTC.2018.8625267.

Patents

• [P1] H. P. H. Shaw, J. Yuan and M. Rowshan, “Delay-Doppler based channel estimation method and apparatus,” Australian Patent 2024900503, Feb. 28, 2024.