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A new coding technique, based on \textit{fixed block-length} codes, is proposed for the problem of communicating a pair of correlated sources over a $2-$user interference channel. Its performance is analyzed to derive a new set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Arun Padakandla

We consider a new fundamental question regarding the point-to-point memoryless channel. The source-channel separation theorem indicates that random codebook construction for lossy source compression and channel coding can be independently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Paul Cuff , Curt Schieler

Source and channel coding over multiuser channels in which receivers have access to correlated source side information is considered. For several multiuser channel models necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal separation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-09 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

Compression is a technique to reduce the quantity of data without excessively reducing the quality of the multimedia data. The transition and storing of compressed multimedia data is much faster and more efficient than original uncompressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Asadollah Shahbahrami , Ramin Bahrampour , Mobin Sabbaghi Rostami , Mostafa Ayoubi Mobarhan

This paper presents a new class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs), namely half spatially coupled braided convolutional codes (HSC-BCCs) and half spatially coupled parallel concatenated codes (HSC-PCCs). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiaowei Wu , Lei Yang , Min Qiu , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael B. Baer

A transcoding scheme for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is proposed that allows any partial frame modification to be followed by a partial re-compression of only the modified areas, while guaranteeing identical reconstruction of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohsen Abdoli , Félix Henry , Gordon Clare

Shaping codes are used to generate code sequences in which the symbols obey a prescribed probability distribution. They arise naturally in the context of source coding for noiseless channels with unequal symbol costs. Recently, shaping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yi Liu , Yonglong Li , Pengfei Huang , Paul H. Siegel

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

Huffman coding is well known to be useful in certain decision problems involving minimizing the average number of (freely chosen) queries to determine an unknown random variable. However, in problems where the queries are more constrained,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuyuan Zhang , Jichen Sun , Shengkang Chen

Semiconstrained systems were recently suggested as a generalization of constrained systems, commonly used in communication and data-storage applications that require certain offending subsequences be avoided. In an attempt to apply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ohad Elishco , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

Canonical Huffman code is an optimal prefix-free compression code whose codewords enumerated in the lexicographical order form a list of binary words in non-decreasing lengths. Gagie et al. (2015) gave a representation of this coding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Szymon Grabowski , Dominik Köppl

We consider a multiterminal source coding problem in which a source is estimated at a central processing unit from lossy-compressed remote observations. Each lossy-encoded observation is produced by a remote sensor which obtains a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Ruiyang Song , Stefano Rini , Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith

The rising interest in applications requiring the transmission of small amounts of data has recently lead to the development of accurate performance bounds and of powerful channel codes for the transmission of short-data packets over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Gianluigi Liva , Giuseppe Durisi , Marco Chiani , Shakeel Salamat Ullah , Soung Chang Liew

The performance of existing coded caching schemes is sensitive to the worst channel quality, a problem which is exacerbated when communicating over fading channels. In this paper, we address this limitation in the following manner: in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Apostolos Destounis , Asma Ghorbel , Georgios S. Paschos , Mari Kobayashi

This paper studies the hierarchical joint source-channel coding with information leakage constraint in the first-phase reconstruction and distortion constraints. The receiver's access to the data varies and is evaluated by the quality of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yiqi Chen , Holger Boche , Marc Geitz

This paper investigates the performance of wireless systems that employ finite-blocklength channel codes for transmission and operate under queueing constraints in the form of limitations on buffer overflow probabilities. A block fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-01 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In this work we improve the quantum communication rates of various quantum channels of interest using permutation-invariant quantum codes. We focus in particular on parametrized families of quantum channels and aim to improve bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Sujeet Bhalerao , Felix Leditzky

A simple and general definition of quasi cyclic low density parity check (QC LDPC) codes which are constructed based on circulant permutation matrices (CPM) is proposed. As an special case of this definition, we first represent one type of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 A. Tasdighi , M. R. Sadeghi