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Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems have garnered significant attention due to their capability to simultaneously achieve efficient communication and environmental sensing. A core objective in this field is characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gefei Peng , Youlong Wu

In this work, we consider two-sender, one-receiver communication over a discrete memoryless multiple-access channel without feedback, where two senders may cooperate on channel coding by using preshared resources, such as shared randomness,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiyoung Yun , Seung-Hyun Nam , Hyun-Young Park , Ashutosh Rai , Si-Hyeon Lee , Joonwoo Bae

We study communication over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with two types of transmitters: Digital transmitters hold a message from a discrete set that needs to be communicated to the receiver with vanishing error probability.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Michael C. Gastpar , Jingge Zhu

Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) is a transmission strategy which allows the receiver in a multiple access channel (MAC) to first decode linear combinations of the transmitted signals and then solve for individual messages. Compared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Lanwei Zhang , Jamie Evans , Jingge Zhu

Communication and computation are traditionally treated as separate entities, allowing for individual optimizations. However, many applications focus on local information's functionality rather than the information itself. For such cases,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saeed Razavikia , José Mairton Barros Da Silva Júnior , Carlo Fischione

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar , Piyush Gupta

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

Adder MAC is a simple noiseless multiple-access channel (MAC), where if users send messages $X_1,\ldots,X_h\in \{0,1\}^n$, then the receiver receives $Y = X_1+\cdots+X_h$ with addition over $\mathbb{Z}$. Communication over the noiseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yuzhou Gu

A general method of coding over expansion is proposed,which allows one to reduce the highly non-trivial problems of coding over analog channels and compressing analog sources to a set of much simpler subproblems, coding over discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kumar Appaiah , Sriram Vishwanath

The problem of reliable transmission of correlated sources over the broadcast channel, originally studied by Han and Costa, is revisited. An alternative characterization of their sufficient condition for reliable transmission is given,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-22 Paolo Minero , Young-Han Kim

Recent years have seen renewed attention to arithmetic coding (AC). This is thanks to the use of AC for distribution matching (DM) to control the channel input distribution in probabilistic amplitude shaping. There are two main problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Yunus Can Gültekin , Frans M. J. Willems , Alex Alvarado

We examine the issue of separation and code design for networks that operate over finite fields. We demonstrate that source-channel (or source-network) separation holds for several canonical network examples like the noisy multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Siddharth Ray , Michelle Effros , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Tracey Ho , David Karger , Jinane Abounadi

In this paper the multicasting of independent parallel Gaussian sources over a binary erasure broadcasted channel is considered. Multiresolution embedded quantizer and layered joint source-channel coding schemes are used in order to serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-19 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor

The two-user Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with cooperative encoders and Channel State Information (CSI) is considered where two different scenarios are investigated: A two-user MAC with common message (MACCM) and a two-user MAC with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-17 Reza K. Farsani , Farokh Marvasti

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), which leverages the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channel (MAC) and the mathematical tool of function representation, has been considered as a promising technique for effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xin Zang , Wanchun Liu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

While feasibility and obtaining a solution of a given network coding problem are well studied, the decoding procedure and complexity have not garnered much attention. We consider the decoding problem in a network wherein the sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

The design of zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) schemes for the transmission of correlated information over fading Multiple Access Channels (MACs) is an interesting problem for many communication scenarios like Wireless Sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 O. Fresnedo , P. Suárez-Casal , L. Castedo

This paper presents a joint typicality framework for encoding and decoding nested linear codes for multi-user networks. This framework provides a new perspective on compute-forward within the context of discrete memoryless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Sung Hoon Lim , Chen Feng , Adriano Pastore , Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar