The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to encoding and decoding information for transmission across a communication channel. The method includes dividing the information between m parallel polar codes such that each of the m parallel polar codes includes a plurality of information bits, and splitting the information bits in each of the m parallel polar codes into a private part and a public part. The public part includes an information section and a repetition section, wherein the information bits of the public part are arranged in the information section. Bits in the information section of the public part of each of the m parallel polar codes are repeated in the repetition section of the public part of at least a second one of the m parallel polar codes.