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In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiangliang Kong , Xin Wang , Ron M. Roth , Itzhak Tamo

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C\colon\Sigma^n\rightarrow \Sigma^m,$ encoding \emph{messages} in $\Sigma^n$ to \emph{codewords} in $\Sigma^m$, with super-fast decoding algorithms. They are important mathematical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander R. Block , Jeremiah Blocki , Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Yu Zheng , Minshen Zhu

The capacity of line networks with buffer size constraints is an open, but practically important problem. In this paper, the upper bound on the achievable rate of a class of codes, called batched codes, is studied for line networks. Batched…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shenghao Yang , Jie Wang

We present a lower bound for Pauli Manipulation Detection (PMD) codes, a class of quantum codes that detect every Pauli error with high probability. Our lower bound reveals the first trade-off between the error parameter and the coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Keiya Ichikawa , Kenji Yasunaga

This paper presents a new construction of error correcting codes which achieves optimal recovery of a streaming source over a packet erasure channel. The channel model considered is the sliding window erasure model, with burst and arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Damian Dudzicz , Silas L. Fong , Ashish Khisti

We consider a surface code suffering decoherence due to coupling to a bath of bosonic modes at finite temperature and study the time available before the unavoidable breakdown of error correction occurs as a function of coupling and bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Adrian Hutter , Daniel Loss

Recently, Galindo et al. introduced the concept of asymmetric entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes (AEAQECCs) from Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction. In general, it's difficult to determine the required number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ziteng Huang , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems as they provide optimal fault tolerance for a given amount of storage overhead. The seminal work of Dimakis~\emph{et al.} first established a lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

The paper introduces new bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates under ML decoding of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric channels. The lower bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

Regenerating codes are efficient methods for distributed storage in storage networks, where node failures are common. They guarantee low cost data reconstruction and repair through accessing only a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Ashish Khisti , Soheil Mohajer

Error-correcting codes over the real field are studied which can locate outlying computational errors when performing approximate computing of real vector--matrix multiplication on resistive crossbars. Prior work has concentrated on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hengjia Wei , Ron M. Roth

Recent work by Divsalar et al. has shown that properly designed protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes typically have minimum (Hamming) distance linearly increasing with block length. This fact rests on ensemble arguments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Brian K. Butler , Paul H. Siegel

Quantum error correction works effectively only if the error rate of gate operations is sufficiently low. However, some rare physical mechanisms can cause a temporary increase in the error rate that affects many qubits; examples include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Shi Jie Samuel Tan , Christopher A. Pattison , Matt McEwen , John Preskill

A locally recoverable code (LRC code) is a code over a finite alphabet such that every symbol in the encoding is a function of a small number of other symbols that form a recovering set. Bounds on the rate and distance of such codes have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg

A binary code of blocklength $n$ and codebook size $M$ is called an $(n,M)$ code, which is studied for memoryless binary symmetric channels (BSCs) with the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. For any $n \geq 2$, some optimal codes among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yanyan Dong , Shenghao Yang

Permutation codes and multi-permutation codes have been widely considered due to their various applications, especially in flash memory. In this paper, we consider permutation codes and multi-permutation codes against a burst of stable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yubo Sun , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

We investigate the upper and lower bounds on the quantization distortions for independent and identically distributed sources in the finite block-length regime. Based on the convex optimization framework of the rate-distortion theory, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Chen Gong , Xiaodong Wang

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

We explore the design of quantum error-correcting codes for cases where the decoherence events of qubits are correlated. In particular, we consider the case where only spatially contiguous qubits decohere, which is analogous to the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 F. Vatan , V. P. Roychowdhury , M. P. Anantram

A concatenated coding scheme over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using a polarization transformation followed by outer sub-codes is analyzed. Achievable error exponents and upper bounds on the error rate are derived. The first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein