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This paper investigates a source coding problem in which two terminals communicating through a relay wish to estimate one another's source within some distortion constraint. The relay has access to side information that is correlated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Elza Erkip

Advancing over up-to-date information theoretic results that assume symmetric correlation models, in this work we consider the problem of lossy binary source coding with side information, where the correlation is expressed by a generic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Andrei Sechelea , Samuel Cheng , Adrian Munteanu , Nikos Deligiannis

Concatenating the state-of-the-art codes at moderate rates with repetition codes has emerged as a practical solution deployed in various standards for ultra-low-power devices such as in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Fariba Abbasi , Hessam Mahdavifar , Emanuele Viterbo

A secrecy system with side information at the decoders is studied in the context of lossy source compression over a noiseless broadcast channel. The decoders have access to different side information sequences that are correlated with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

The recently proposed set-up of source coding with a side information "vending machine" allows the decoder to select actions in order to control the quality of the side information. The actions can depend on the message received from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Osvaldo Simeone

The problem of lossless data compression with side information available to both the encoder and the decoder is considered. The finite-blocklength fundamental limits of the best achievable performance are defined, in two different versions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

This work develops a rate-distortion-based approach to stochastic Chase decoding of algebraic codes over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels, replacing the heuristics traditionally used to determine flip probabilities with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Amit Berman , Ariel Doubchak , Uri Erez , Tal Philosof , Ilya Shapir

This paper considers the source coding problem with broadcast side information. The side information is sent to two receivers through a noisy broadcast channel. We provide an outer bound of the rate--distortion--bandwidth (RDB) quadruples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yiqi Chen , Holger Boche , Marc Geitz

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider the problem of multiple descriptions (MD) source coding and propose new coding strategies involving both unstructured and structured coding layers. Previously, the most general achievable rate-distortion (RD) region for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study a novel multi-terminal source coding setup motivated by the biclustering problem. Two separate encoders observe two i.i.d. sequences $X^n$ and $Y^n$, respectively. The goal is to find rate-limited encodings $f(x^n)$ and $g(z^n)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida , Gerald Matz

A new ensemble of structured codes is introduced. These codes are called Quasi Linear Codes (QLC). The QLC's are constructed by taking subsets of linear codes. They have a looser structure compared to linear codes and are not closed under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 F. Shirani , M. Heidari , S. S. Pradhan

In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity, along with their decoding algorithm. In the polynomial ideal framework, a code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siddharth Bhandari , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Madhu Sudan

The problem of secure multiterminal source coding with side information at the eavesdropper is investigated. This scenario consists of a main encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a single source but simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida

In this paper, the analysis of the performance of the concatenation of a short polar code with an outer binary linear block code is addressed from a distance spectrum viewpoint. The analysis targets the case where an outer cyclic code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Giacomo Ricciutelli , Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce , Gianluigi Liva

Since the publication of Shannon's theory of one terminal source coding, a number of interesting extensions have been derived by researchers such as Slepian-Wolf, Wyner, Ahlswede-K\"{o}rner, Wyner-Ziv and Berger-Yeung. Specifically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Soumya Jana

An iterative decoding algorithm for convolutional codes is presented. It successively processes $N$ consecutive blocks of the received word in order to decode the first block. A bound is presented showing which error configurations can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-07 H. Gluesing-Luerssen , U. Helmke , J. I. Iglesias Curto

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

We consider source coding with fixed lag side information at the decoder. We focus on the special case of perfect side information with unit lag corresponding to source coding with feedforward (the dual of channel coding with feedback)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Emin Martinian , Gregory W. Wornell