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Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Consider a distributed coding for computing problem with constant decoding locality, i.e., with a vanishing error probability, any single sample of the function can be approximately recovered by probing only constant number of compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

The multicast capacity of a directed network is closely related to the $s$-$t$ maximum flow, which is equal to the $s$-$t$ minimum cut capacity due to the max-flow min-cut theorem. If the topology of a network (or link capacities) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Tadashi Wadayama , Yuki Fujii

We show that solving a multiple-unicast network coding problem can be reduced to solving a single-unicast network error correction problem, where an adversary may jam at most a single edge in the network. Specifically, we present an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Wentao Huang , Michael Langberg , Joerg Kliewer

Space complexity is a critical factor in various computational models, including streaming, parallel/distributed computing, and communication complexity. We study the space complexity of the minimum-cost flow problem, a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan van den Brand , Zhao Song , Albert Weng

This work studies the problem of constructing capacity-achieving codes from an algorithmic perspective. Specifically, we prove that there exists a Turing machine which, given a discrete memoryless channel $p_{Y|X}$, a target rate $R$ less…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Angelos Gkekas , Nikos A. Mitsiou , Ioannis Souldatos , George K. Karagiannidis

The traditional notion of capacity studied in the context of memoryless network communication builds on the concept of block-codes and requires that, for sufficiently large blocklength n, all receiver nodes simultaneously decode their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

A combinatorial framework for adversarial network coding is presented. Channels are described by specifying the possible actions that one or more (possibly coordinated) adversaries may take. Upper bounds on three notions of capacity (the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Alberto Ravagnani , Frank R. Kschischang

This paper characterizes the secret message capacity of three networks where two unicast sessions share some of the communication resources. Each network consists of erasure channels with state feedback. A passive eavesdropper is assumed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

In network function computation is as a means to reduce the required communication flow in terms of number of bits transmitted per source symbol. However, the rate region for the function computation problem in general topologies is an open…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Derya Malak , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

Matrix completion is a fundamental problem that comes up in a variety of applications like the Netflix problem, collaborative filtering, computer vision, and crowdsourcing. The goal of the problem is to recover a k-by-n unknown matrix from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Changho Suh

Error-correction codes are central for fault-tolerant information processing. Here we develop a rigorous framework to describe various coding models based on quantum resource theory of superchannels. We find, by treating codings as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Dong-Sheng Wang , Yuan-Dong Liu , Yun-Jiang Wang , Shunlong Luo

This paper proposes Fulcrum network codes, a network coding framework that achieves three seemingly conflicting objectives: (i) to reduce the coding coefficient overhead to almost n bits per packet in a generation of n packets; (ii) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Daniel E. Lucani , Morten V. Pedersen , Diego Ruano , Chres W. Sørensen , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Janus Heide , Olav Geil

The non-uniform demand network coding problem is posed as a single-source and multiple-sink network transmission problem where the sinks may have heterogeneous demands. In contrast with multicast problems, non-uniform demand problems are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Joseph C. Koo , John Gill

While feasibility and obtaining a solution of a given network coding problem are well studied, the decoding procedure and complexity have not garnered much attention. We consider the decoding problem in a network wherein the sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

To reduce computational complexity and delay in randomized network coded content distribution (and for some other practical reasons), coding is not performed simultaneously over all content blocks but over much smaller subsets known as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-04 Yao Li , Emina Soljanin , Predrag Spasojevic

We consider the problem of reliable communication over multiple-access channels (MAC) where the channel is driven by an independent and identically distributed state process and the encoders and the decoder are provided with various degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Nevroz Şen , Fady Alajaji , Serdar Yüksel , Giacomo Como

Secure network function computation is a critical research direction in network coding, which aims to ensure that the target function is correctly computed at the sink node while preventing the wiretapper from obtaining any information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qin Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

In this letter, we introduce the computational-limited (comp-limited) signals, a communication capacity regime in which the signal time computational complexity overhead is the key constraint -- rather than power or bandwidth -- to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Saulo Queiroz , João P. Vilela , Edmundo Monteiro