Moradi, MohsenMozammel, Amir2025-02-242025-02-242024-12-051874-4907https://hdl.handle.net/11693/116743This paper proposes a rate-profile construction method for polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes of any code length and rate, which is capable of preserving the trade-off between the error-correction performance and decoding complexity of PAC codes. The proposed method can improve the error-correction performance of PAC codes while guaranteeing a low mean sequential decoding complexity for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values beyond a target SNR value.EnglishCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Deed)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/PAC codesSequential decodingPolar codingChannel codingRate profileArticle10.1016/j.phycom.2024.102578