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The reliability of memory devices is affected by radiation induced soft errors. Multiple cell upsets (MCUs) caused by radiation corrupt data stored in multiple cells within memories. Error correction codes (ECCs) are typically used to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Sayan Tripathi , Jhilam Jana , Jaydeb Bhaumik

Error correction code is a major part of the communication physical layer, ensuring the reliable transfer of data over noisy channels. Recently, neural decoders were shown to outperform classical decoding techniques. However, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

We introduce a new family of binary linear codes suitable for steganographic matrix embedding. The main characteristic of the codes is the staircase random block structure of the generator matrix. We propose an efficient list decoding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Simona Samardjiska , Danilo Gligoroski

Industrial Ethernet is a technology widely spread in factory floors and critical infrastructures where a high amount of data need to be collected and transported. Fiber optic networks at gigabit rates fit well with that type of environments…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Adrián Pérez-Resa , Miguel García-Bosque , Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta , Santiago Celma

In this paper we describe a new error-correcting code (ECC) inspired by the Naccache-Stern cryptosystem. While by far less efficient than Turbo codes, the proposed ECC happens to be more efficient than some established ECCs for certain sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Eric Brier , Jean-Sébastien Coron , Rémi Géraud , Diana Maimut , David Naccache

Rateless codes have been shown to provide robust error correction over a wide range of binary and noisy channels. Using a stochastic geometry model, this paper studies the performance of rateless codes in the cellular downlink and compares…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Amogh Rajanna , Martin Haenggi

Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) suffer from a prohibitively high decoding complexity unless the low-complexity decodability property is taken into consideration in the STBC design. For this purpose, several families of STBCs that involve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Amr Ismail , Jocelyn Fiorina , Hikmet Sari

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain complex problems in a much more efficient way than classical computers. Nevertheless, current quantum computer implementations are limited by high physical error rates. This issue is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Alessio Cicero , Luigi Altamura , Moritz Lange , Mats Granath , Pedro Trancoso

Superdense coding promises increased classical capacity and communication security but this advantage may be undermined by noise in the quantum channel. We present a numerical study of how forward error correction (FEC) applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ronald J. Sadlier , Travis S. Humble

We present CAGE (Continuity-Aware edGE) network, a robust framework for reconstructing vector floorplans directly from point-cloud density maps. Traditional corner-based polygon representations are highly sensitive to noise and incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yiyi Liu , Chunyang Liu , Bohan Wang , Weiqin Jiao , Bojian Wu , Lubin Fan , Yuwei Chen , Fashuai Li , Biao Xiong

Soft forward error correction with higher-order modulations is often implemented in practice via the pragmatic bit-interleaved coded modulation paradigm, where a single binary code is mapped to a nonbinary modulation. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

A common assumption in analyses of error thresholds and quantum computing in general is that one applies fault-tolerant quantum error correction (FTQEC) after every gate. This, however, is known not to always be optimal if the FTQEC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Ali Abu-Nada , Ben Fortescue , Mark Byrd

In this paper, we investigate the impact of Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes namely Cyclic Redundancy Code and Convolution Code on the performance of OFDM wireless communication system for speech signal transmission over both AWGN and…

Current optical coherent transponders technology is driving data rates towards 1 Tb/s/{\lambda}and beyond. This trend requires both high-performance coded modulation schemes and efficient implementation of the forward-error-correction (FEC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gabriele Liga , Bin Chen , Sjoerd van der Heide , Alireza Sheikh , Menno van der Hout , Chigo Okonkwo , Alex Alvarado

We present a graph theoretic upper bound on speedup needed to achieve 100% throughput in a multicast switch using network coding. By bounding speedup, we show the equivalence between network coding and speedup in multicast switches - i.e.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 MinJi Kim , Jay Kumar Sundararajan , Muriel Medard

We present a novel method for error correction in the presence of fading channel estimation errors (CEE). When such errors are significant, considerable performance losses can be observed if the wireless transceiver is not adapted. Instead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

We study the design of spectrally efficient fiber-optical communication systems based on different spatially coupled (SC) forward error correction (FEC) schemes. In particular, we optimize the allocation of the coded bits from the FEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

In this paper we propose a new design criterion and a new class of unitary signal constellations for differential space-time modulation for multiple-antenna systems over Rayleigh flat-fading channels with unknown fading coefficients.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Xinjia Chen , Kemin Zhou , Jorge Aravena

Reliability is an important requirement for both communication and storage systems. Due to continuous scale down of technology multiple adjacent bits error probability increases. The data may be corrupted due soft errors. Error correction…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Sayan Tripathi , Jhilam Jana , Jaydeb Bhaumik

A fault-tolerant quantum computer must decode and correct errors faster than they appear. The faster errors can be corrected, the more time the computer can do useful work. The Union-Find (UF) decoder is promising with an average time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Namitha Liyanage , Yue Wu , Alexander Deters , Lin Zhong