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Predictive Coding (PC) is an influential account of cortical learning. Much of recent work has focused on comparing PC to Backpropagation (BP) to find whether PC offers any advantages. Small scale experiments show that PC enables learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Gaspard Oliviers , Elene Lominadze , Rafal Bogacz

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

We design a cross-layer approach to optimize the joint use of multi-packet reception and network coding, in order to relieve congestion. We construct a model for the behavior of the 802.11 MAC and apply it to several key canonical topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Jason Cloud , Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications and data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

Coded caching is used to reduce network congestion during peak hours. A single server is connected to a set of users through a bottleneck link, which generally is assumed to be error-free. During non-peak hours, all the users have full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Model predictive control (MPC) provides a useful means for controlling systems with constraints, but suffers from the computational burden of repeatedly solving an optimization problem in real time. Offline (explicit) solutions for MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Daniel Tabas , Baosen Zhang

Network Coding (NC) shows great potential in various communication scenarios through changing the packet forwarding principles of current networks. It can improve not only throughput, latency, reliability and security but also alleviates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Dávid Szabó , Attila Csoma , Péter Megyesi , András Gulyás , Frank H. P. Fitzek

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

In this paper, we discuss non-adaptive distributed compression of inter-node correlated real-valued messages. To do so, we discuss the performance of conventional packet forwarding via routing, in terms of the total network load versus the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-28 Mahdy Nabaee , Fabrice Labeau

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) naturally supports multi-path communication, as it allows the simultaneous use of multiple interfaces (e.g. LTE and WiFi). When multiple sources and multiple clients are considered, the optimal set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jonnahtan Saltarin , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Torsten Braun

To better understand the wireless network design with a large number of hops, we investigate a line network formed by general discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), which may not be identical. Our focus lies on Generalized Batched Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jie Wang , Shenghao Yang , Yanyan Dong , Yiheng Zhang

Exact queueing analysis of erasure networks with network coding in a finite buffer regime is an extremely hard problem due to the large number of states in the network. In such networks, packets are lost due to either link erasures or due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Nima Torabkhani , Badri N. Vellambi , Faramarz Fekri

This paper considers a network where a node wishes to transmit a source message to a legitimate receiver in the presence of an eavesdropper. The transmitter secures its transmissions employing a sparse implementation of Random Linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki , Andrew Nix

In this work, we study the problem of scheduling a maximal set of transmitters subjected to an interference constraint across all the nodes. Given a set of nodes, the problem reduces to finding the maximum cardinality of a subset of nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Rakshith Jagannath , Radha Krishna Ganti , Neelesh S Upadhye

When two or more users in a wireless network transmit simultaneously, their electromagnetic signals are linearly superimposed on the channel. As a result, a receiver that is interested in one of these signals sees the others as unwanted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

Recently, it has been shown that the max flow capacity can be achieved in a multicast network using network coding. In this paper, we propose and analyze a more realistic model for wireless random networks. We prove that the capacity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-11 Salah A. Aly , Vishal Kapoor , Jie Meng , Andreas Klappenecker

Coded caching schemes are used to reduce computer network traffics in peak time. To determine the efficiency of the schemes, \cite{MN} defined the information rate of the schemes and gave a construction of optimal coded caching schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ruizhong Wei

Error correction codes are an integral part of communication applications, boosting the reliability of transmission. The optimal decoding of transmitted codewords is the maximum likelihood rule, which is NP-hard due to the curse of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Nir Raviv , Avi Caciularu , Tomer Raviv , Jacob Goldberger , Yair Be'ery

In this paper, the scheduling of downlink file transmission in one cell with the assistance of cache nodes with finite cache space is studied. Specifically, requesting users arrive randomly and the base station (BS) reactively multicasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Ying Cui , Yi Gong , Haisheng Tan

Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yousef AlHassoun , Faisal Alotaibi , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal