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We study the problem of multi-access coded caching (MACC): a central server has $N$ files, $K$ ($K \leq N$) caches each of which stores $M$ out of the $N$ files, $K$ users each of which demands one out of the $N$ files, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

This article presents a novel enhancement to the random spreading based coding scheme developed by Pradhan et al.\ for the unsourced multiple access channel. The original coding scheme features a polar outer code in conjunction with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Semantic- and task-oriented communication has emerged as a promising approach to reducing the latency and bandwidth requirements of next-generation mobile networks by transmitting only the most relevant information needed to complete a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Michèle A. Wigger , Tze-Yang Tung , Ping Zhang , Yong Xiao

Consensus is a common method for computing a function of the data distributed among the nodes of a network. Of particular interest is distributed average consensus, whereby the nodes iteratively compute the sample average of the data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ryan Pilgrim

We derive a linear programming bound on the maximum cardinality of error-correcting codes in the sum-rank metric. Based on computational experiments on relatively small instances, we observe that the obtained bounds outperform all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Aida Abiad , Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Antonina P. Khramova , Ilia Ponomarenko

The computational analysis of Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) data aims at the identification of interesting mass co-localizations and the visualization of their lateral distribution in the sample, usually a tissue cross section. But as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Karsten Wüllems , Tim W. Nattkemper

Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang

Multicast remains a fundamental mechanism for scalable content distribution, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Traditional multicast trees suffer from path redundancy and inefficient utilization of network resources, while…

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We survey coding techniques that enable reliable transmission at rates that approach the capacity of an arbitrary discrete memoryless channel. In particular, we take the point of view of modern coding theory and discuss how recent advances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

We investigate the problem of strong coordination over a multiple-access channel (MAC) with cribbing encoders. In this configuration, two encoders observe independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples of a source random variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Viswanathan Ramachandran , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

In 1968, Witsenhausen introduced his famous counterexample where he showed that even in the simple linear quadratic static team decision problem, complex nonlinear decisions could outperform any given linear decision. This problem has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Johannes Kron , Ather Gattami , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

One of the major challenges in using distributed learning to train complicated models with large data sets is to deal with stragglers effect. As a solution, coded computation has been recently proposed to efficiently add redundancy to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We study a linear computation problem over a quantum multiple access channel (LC-QMAC), where $S$ servers share an entangled state and separately store classical data streams $W_1,\cdots, W_S$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_d$. A user aims…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Lei Hu , Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Yu Shi , Sennur Ulukus , Saikat Guha

The capacity region of the multiple access channel with arbitrarily correlated sources remains an open problem. Cover, El Gamal and Salehi gave an achievable region in the form of single-letter entropy and mutual information expressions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 W. Kang , S. Ulukus

We consider the problem of distributed computation of a target function over a multiple-access channel. If the target and channel functions are matched (i.e., compute the same function), significant performance gains can be obtained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi

Random coding arguments are the backbone of most channel capacity achievability proofs. In this paper, we show that in their standard form, such arguments are insufficient for proving some network capacity theorems: structured coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-05 Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

We consider the problem of computing the capacity of a coded, multicast network over a small alphabet. We introduce a novel approach to this problem based on mixed integer programming. As an application of our approach, we recover, extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

In this first part, a computable outer bound is proved for the multiterminal source coding problem, for a setup with two encoders, discrete memoryless sources, and bounded distortion measures.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sergio D. Servetto

We consider a problem of unsourced random access in the quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. In the previous work, the authors have proposed LDPC code based solutions based on joint and treat interference as noise in combination with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Kirill Andreev , Evgeny Marshakov , Alexey Frolov

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang