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One-shot achievable rate region for source coding when coded side information is available at the decoder (source coding with a helper) is proposed. The achievable region proposed is in terms of conditional smooth max Renyi entropy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Link and node failures are common two fundamental problems that affect operational networks. Hence, protection of communication networks is essential to increase their reliability, performance, and operations. Much research work has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Salah A. Aly , Ahmed E. Kamal

Coding schemes with extremely low computational complexity are required for particular applications, such as wireless body area networks, in which case both very high data accuracy and very low power-consumption are required features. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Eimear Byrne , Akiko Manada

Random linear network coding is a particularly decentralized approach to the multicast problem. Use of random network codes introduces a non-zero probability however that some sinks will not be able to successfully decode the required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Adria Tauste-Campo , Alex Grant

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

The problem of error correction in both coherent and noncoherent network coding is considered under an adversarial model. For coherent network coding, where knowledge of the network topology and network code is assumed at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

The problem of coding for networks experiencing worst-case symbol errors is considered. We argue that this is a reasonable model for highly dynamic wireless network transmissions. We demonstrate that in this setup prior network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Qiwen Wang , Sidharth Jaggi

The field of information science has greatly developed, and applications in various fields have emerged. In this paper, we evaluated the coding system in the theory of Tsallis entropy for transmission of messages and aimed to formulate the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-13 Tatsuaki Tsuruyama

In this paper, we study the problem of securely computing a function over a network, where both the target function and the security function are vector linear. The network is modeled as a directed acyclic graph. A sink node wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Min Xu , Qian Chen , Gennian Ge

This work provides data-processing and majorization inequalities for $f$-divergences, and it considers some of their applications to coding problems. This work also provides tight bounds on the R\'{e}nyi entropy of a function of a discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Igal Sason

Motivated from the fact that universal source coding on countably infinite alphabets is not feasible, this work introduces the notion of almost lossless source coding. Analog to the weak variable-length source coding problem studied by Han…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

We introduce a new class of qubit codes that we call Evenbly codes, building on a previous proposal of hyperinvariant tensor networks. Its tensor network description consists of local, non-perfect tensors describing CSS codes interspersed…

This paper investigates the problem of single-source multicasting over a communication network in the presence of restricted adversaries. When the adversary is constrained to operate only on a prescribed subset of edges, classical cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kılıç , Sascha Kurz , Alberto Ravagnani

The zero-error channel capacity is the maximum asymptotic rate that can be reached with error probability exactly zero, instead of a vanishing error probability. The nature of this problem, essentially combinatorial rather than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Nicolas Charpenay , Maël Le Treust

Recently, a coding technique called position-based coding has been used to establish achievability statements for various kinds of classical communication protocols that use quantum channels. In the present paper, we apply this technique in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Haoyu Qi , Qingle Wang , Mark M. Wilde

We show strongly secret achievable rate regions for two different wiretap multiple-access channel coding problems. In the first problem, each encoder has a private message and both together have a common message to transmit. The encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Moritz Wiese , Holger Boche

We consider the zero-error capacity of deletion channels. Specifically, we consider the setting where we choose a codebook ${\cal C}$ consisting of strings of $n$ bits, and our model of the channel corresponds to an adversary who may delete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Ian A. Kash , Michael Mitzenmacher , Justin Thaler , Jonathan Ullman

For every p in (0,1/2), we give an explicit construction of binary codes of rate approaching "capacity" 1-H(p) that enable reliable communication in the presence of worst-case additive errors}, caused by a channel oblivious to the codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

We analyze the performance of TCP and TCP with network coding (TCP/NC) in lossy networks. We build upon the framework introduced by Padhye et al. and characterize the throughput behavior of classical TCP and TCP/NC as a function of erasure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-17 MinJi Kim , Thierry Klein , Emina Soljanin , Joao Barros , Muriel Medard

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