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This letter introduces a novel algorithm for generating codebooks in molecular communications (MC). The proposed algorithm utilizes character entropy to effectively mitigate inter-symbol interference (ISI) during MC via diffusion. Based on…
In this work we propose a novel decoding algorithm for tailbiting convolutional codes and evaluate its performance over different channels. The proposed method consists on a fixed two-step Viterbi decoding of the received data. In the first…
We introduce the notion of innovations for Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. First we define a kind of innovation corresponding to the received data, i.e., the input to a Viterbi decoder. Then the structure of a…
The downlink channel state information (CSI) estimation and low overhead acquisition are the major challenges for massive MIMO systems in frequency division duplex to enable high MIMO gain. Recently, numerous studies have been conducted to…
Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate…
High-density LED arrays enable high-speed transmission in image-sensor-based visible-light communication (VLC) systems. However, when optical spots become blurred and spatially overlapped due to focal shift, resolution limitations, or…
Iterative decoding was not originally introduced as the solution to an optimization problem rendering the analysis of its convergence very difficult. In this paper, we investigate the link between iterative decoding and classical…
Inter symbol interference (ISI), which occurs in a wide variety of channels, is a result of time dispersion. It can be mitigated by equalization, which results in noise coloring. Inspired by the development of Approximate Independence in…
A reduced complexity algorithm is presented for computing the log-likelihood ratios arising in the successive cancellation decoder for polar codes with large kernels of arbitrary dimension. The proposed algorithm exploits recursive trellis…
A novel decoding algorithm is developed for general quantum convolutional codes. Exploiting useful ideas from classical coding theory, the new decoder introduces two innovations that drastically reduce the decoding complexity compared to…
A key challenge in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is the synthesis of waveforms that can modulate communication messages and achieve good sensing performance simultaneously. In ISAC systems, standard communication waveforms…
A communication link aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is studied in which the transmitter can control the state of the RIS via a finite-rate control link. Channel state information (CSI) is acquired at the receiver based…
This paper studies cross-domain lossy compression through the lens of minimum entropy coupling (MEC) with rate and classification constraints. In this setting, an encoder observes samples from a degraded source domain, while the decoder is…
In molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD), the inter-symbol interference (ISI) is a well known severe problem that deteriorates both data rates and link reliability. ISI mainly occurs due to the slow and highly random propagation of…
A List Viterbi detector produces a rank ordered list of the N globally best candidates in a trellis search. A List Viterbi detector structure is proposed that incorporates the noise prediction with periodic state-metric updates based on…
Traditional wireless communications rely solely on bit-level channel coding for error correction, without exploiting the inherent linguistic structure of the data source. This paper proposes a large language model (LLM) Viterbi decoder that…
The serial concatenation of a repetition code with two or more accumulators has the advantage of a simple encoder structure. Furthermore, the resulting ensemble is asymptotically good and exhibits minimum distance growing linearly with…
In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided large-scale MIMO system is investigated in which constant envelope precoding (CEP) is utilized at each base station (BS). It is both cost-effective and energy-efficient to…
The anti-interference capability of wireless links is a physical layer problem for edge computing. Although convolutional codes have inherent error correction potential due to the redundancy introduced in the data, the performance of the…
In this paper, we show that the code-trellis and the error-trellis for a convolutional code can be reduced simultaneously, if reduction is possible. Assume that the error-trellis can be reduced using shifted error-subsequences. In this…