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We define a notion of network capacity region of networks that generalizes the notion of network capacity defined by Cannons et al. and prove its notable properties such as closedness, boundedness and convexity when the finite field is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anthony Kim , Muriel Medard

We consider the multiple unicast problem under network coding over directed acyclic networks when there are two source-terminal pairs, $s_1-t_1$ and $s_2-t_2$. Current characterizations of the multiple unicast capacity region in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-03 Shurui Huang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network at minimum cost. The aim is to find the optimal rates at which the sources should be compressed and the network flows using which they should be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-13 Aditya Ramamoorthy

Characterizing the capacity region of multi-source wireless relay networks is one of the fundamental issues in network information theory. The problem is, however, quite challenging due to inter-user interference when there exist multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Sang-Woon Jeon , Sae-Young Chung

We investigate the two unicast flow problem over layered linear deterministic networks with arbitrary number of nodes. When the minimum cut value between each source-destination pair is constrained to be 1, it is obvious that the triangular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-01 I-Hsiang Wang , Sudeep U. Kamath , David N. C. Tse

We study the use of linear codes for network computing in single-receiver networks with various classes of target functions of the source messages. Such classes include reducible, injective, semi-injective, and linear target functions over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Kenneth Zeger

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

In this work we study zero vs. epsilon-error capacity in network coding instances. For multicast network coding it is well known that all rates that can be delivered with arbitrarily small error probability can also be delivered with zero…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

A new inner bound on the capacity region of a general index coding problem is established. Unlike most existing bounds that are based on graph theoretic or algebraic tools, the bound is built on a random coding scheme and optimal decoding,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Bernd Bandemer , Young-Han Kim , Eren Sasoglu , Lele Wang

The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

We consider the problem of multicasting information from a source to a set of receivers over a network where intermediate network nodes perform randomized network coding operations on the source packets. We propose a channel model for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-17 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Soheil Mohajer , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

The rate of a network code is the ratio of the block size of the network's messages to that of its edge codewords. We compare the linear capacities and achievable rate regions of networks using finite field alphabets to the more general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Joseph Connelly , Kenneth Zeger

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

This paper studies the capacity of single-source single-sink noiseless networks under adversarial or arbitrary errors on no more than z edges. Unlike prior papers, which assume equal capacities on all links, arbitrary link capacities are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-18 Sukwon Kim , Tracey Ho , Michelle Effros , Amir Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, we consider different aspects of the network functional compression problem where computation of a function (or, some functions) of sources located at certain nodes in a network is desired at receiver(s). The rate region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

Increasing network utilization is often considered as the holy grail of communications. In this article, the concept of sub-rate coding and decoding in the framework of linear network coding (LNC) is discussed for single-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ben Grinboim , Itay Shrem , Ofer Amrani

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto

This work considers the multiple-access multicast error-correction scenario over a packetized network with $z$ malicious edge adversaries. The network has min-cut $m$ and packets of length $\ell$, and each sink demands all information from…

Characterising the capacity region for a network can be extremely difficult. Even with independent sources, determining the capacity region can be as hard as the open problem of characterising all information inequalities. The majority of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Satyajit Thakor , Terence Chan , Alex Grant

We consider a communication network with a single source that has a set of messages and two terminals where each terminal is interested in an arbitrary subset of messages at the source. A tight capacity region for this problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Aditya Ramamoorthy , Richard D. Wesel